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THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 21, 1918. Nebraska mm discovers . NAME ON PETITION i Suffragist Finds That His Name Has Been Signed on Anti-Suffrage Petition; ! Says Didn't Sign. Prince of Wales Takes Seat in English House of Lords (From Staff rorr-pnnont.) j Lincoln. Feb. 20. (Special.) Pos session of a lead pencil in the pocket : of a visitor to the office of the i-ec-! retary of sUte of Nebraska is a sus- picious evidence that he needs watch ing in the event that li is visit to that office is for the purpose of examining the anti-MiffraRe petitions on tile , there and which hac recently been ! made the subject of much contro- ! versy and a snit in district court to ' determine their validity. William Foster, a well known mrni bcr ot the state board of agriculture i and a former member of the state legislature from Lancaster county and a staunch democrat, visited the offie'e j of the secretary of state this morning to discover whether hi name was ot; the Lancaster county petition or not. He had been told that it was, but he did not remember ever having signed it. He told Mr. Fool, the secretary, 1 that no man, not even a democrat tn good standing, could see the petition ..unless he was- divested of all the arms 3of literary warfare. Mr. Foster hunted ' around in his pockets a few times nnd ! finally dug up a stub ot a pencil about three inches long, which, with due ceremony, was turned over u the, custodian of pencils. He was in- formed that this was necessary for fear that some names might be added or some other injury be practiced 'upon the documents. lr. Foster is a strontr advocate of ..woman suffrage, but he found his name signed to the anti-suffrage petitions. He says he never signed any petition : of that nature, He remembers of signing one that the man told him vvjj for the purpose of having the sun shine in the night and the moon in the day time, or something like that, but never had he signed any- , Jhing like an anti-sufTrage petition. After he had made the discovery, Vtoe arose, was handed his stub pencil by the pencil custodian, and he left the office, a sadder but wiser man, vith not an odor of suspicion at- '.llHIICU I J 1113 Rai Hit II ,9, 1WI III,., lit. lit'l ' delivered his suspicious-looking stub 'pencil to the custodian of stub pen cils and other kinds and received it 'back from the custodian unsullied? . . . ... Kearney Commercial Club i Calls Halt on Experiment Tlie Kearney Commercial club was represented at a meeting of the city commissioners held Tuesday and, urged the latter to intercede on be half of the club to prevent the county board of supervisors from using a mile of government constructed road ex tending t mile south from the court house, for experimental purposes. The county board decided some time ago to experiment, with graveling a road and settltd upon the government built mile of road as the likely place. CHOBAR ONSTAND GIVES DETAILS OF MAN'S MUEDEE Continued From P One.) ' ' " defense about 3:30 o'clock this afteri non and under the direction of his at torney, G. W. France, he related to the jury the story of the murder and how lie left the Blender home. He told of his suspicions o( Blender and his wife and the reasons for his suspicions. Played Trick. He said that on the evening of the murder, or about 8:30 q'clock, he told Blender he believed he-would .go to Benedict in the Blender car, that he took the car and, as Blender aud his wife thought, started for town, but went only a few hundred yards, when he stopped, got otjtof the car and walked back to the house and up to the window of his wife's bedrodm. He was convinced Blender and his wife were together, so he went back and got the car and brought it around to the garage, went to the milk house and got a revolver, slipped back into the house and, without a word of warning, shot Blender in the head near the lefteye. Tied Wife on Bed. Chobar then told of. his tying and gagging his wife in bed, cutting the telephone wire, getting the key to the Blender desk from Blender's pocket, with which he opened Blen der'a desk to get a map of the coun try to guide him in making his get away and the taking of $10 or l from Blender's pocket. The accused told of his starting the car and how he stalled with it near Clarks, of his abandonment of the car and making his way to Clarks, where he took a train for Grand Isl and and then on to Kearney. At Kear ney he started north across the coun try, tramped it up into Todd county, South Dakota, and told :t his cap ture there, where he hired out to a ranchman. Chobar was still in , the midst of his story when court ad journed until Thursday morning, Bracted Too Much. A farmer lha other day took a plowshare to the Blacksmith's to he aharpcnul, and while the blacksmith worked tho (armcr chuckled and bragged about a talc ot hog be had Jut made. Them hotca waa only eight months old," h said, "and none too fat, nuihtr; but ti Been that the buyer was at his wits' end, and by skillful jugglln' 1 boosted up the price on him Just SOD per cent. Yes. by cum, I got three, time more for them hogs than 1 lister get before the war.'1 The plowshare awing: done, the farmer banded the smith 60 cents. 'Hold on." said the smith, "I charge' $1 6(1 tor that Job now." "You scandalous rascel!" yelled the farmer. "What' do you mean by treblln' your price on me? What have you done It lor?" , "t'v done It," said the blacksmith, "no's I'll be able to eat some of that hlgh-prlcd pork of yours this winter." Washington 6tar. Mm 1 3 rsjot'il - rA t1L?r J'Jy Iff vfV , r, Vv 111" VS-v! Kw.e a s TUB PK1KCX cy WAWj -London, Feb. 20. The prince of Wales took the oath and his se.1t in the Mouse of Lords today. Queen Mary and the princesses, Mary and The prince wore royal robes and the collar of the order of the garter, lie was introduced to the lords with the usual ceremony. The peers in the Victoria, were present in the royal procession wore their Parliamentary box. I robes. First Petition for Pool For Congress in Sixth Lincoln, Feb. 20. (Special.) Petitions from Howard, Morrill, Sheridan, Dawes and Dawson county reached the office of the secre tary of state this morning asking that the names of Charles VV. Pool, secre tary of state, be placed upon t .e primary bjillot for the democratic nomination for congress in the Sixth district. ( This Is the first act' in the drama in which Pool and eSnator Peal of Custer will play the leading parts in an effort tob reak itno congress. Mr. Pool will not have to take action in the matter until after someone makes a filing and deposits the fee of $10 required. . He will then have five days to shy his hat in the ring and announce his platform. Pioneer Nebraska Woman Is Interred at Gibbon Gibbon, Neb., Feb. 20. (Special.) Funeral services for Mrs. Emily S. Osborn were held here Sunday. She had been making her home at .Council Bluffs, la., and came here three weeks ago to visit at the homes of her sons, L. T. and T. W. Osborn. Mrs. Os born was one of the old Platte county settlers, locathig near where the town of Monroe is now built. West Point Educator Takes Charge at Columbus West Toint, Neb., Feb. 20.-(Spe-cial.) Prof. C-'Ray Gates, city super intendent of the public schools of West Point was elected to the same position at Columbus by the board of e d u c a t i cino I it h at c i t y T ti e sd a v . i Try This The quick wit of a traveling salesman who ha since, become a well-known prop rietor, was severely tested one day. He sent In bis card by the office boy to the manager f a large concern, whose inner office was separated from the waiting-room by a ground-gltss partition. When the boy banded hie card to the manager, the sales- ' man saw him Impatiently tear it In half and throw It In the waste basket; the boy cams i out and told the caller that h could not ace the chief. The salesman told the boy to go back and get htm his card; the boy brought out five cents, with the message that bis card was torn up. Then the sales man took eut another card and sent the boy ' back, saying "Tell your boss I sell two cards for five cents." Ha got on Interview and sold a large Wll of roods. PltUburgo Chronlcle-Tela- . I Vl if W St Sr rJ GOOD FOR CANADA Canadian Dentists Making History at Home and in the Trenches. The Canadian Army Dental Corps have had nearly four years' experience in actual war conditions. The develop ment during this period has been more rapid than in half a century of a world at peace. Canada, with her three years' experience, has many things to teach us if we are not too proud to learn and avail ourselves of her counsel. The above excerpt, taken from "Oral Hygiene," shows that our Canadian brothers are doing at the front and right in keeping with the spirit of progress and the throwing off of shackles and superstition comes this re freshing news from Quebec : "Quebec Dentist May Advertise" "The College of Surgeon Dentist of the Prov ince of Quebec ha ABOLISHED THE RULE PROHIBITING NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING BY ITS MEMBERS," Not., 1917, issue, page 146, Printer' Ink. If the American dentist can learn much at the hands of his Canadian colleagues at the front he can also learn some thing from the twentieth century Dentists of Quebec. Ethics has long been a mill-stone around'the neck of the American people. It has promoted the very quackery it protended to abhor by classing as FRAUDS AND IN COMPETENTS (and thereby handicapping them) EVERY dentist who used the press as a means of advertis ing his skill. Now that the entering wedge has been in serted let America's best dentists the big, broad minded, capable members of the profession come out in the open and joia.hands in stamping out the quacks who advertise and the quacks who do not advertise and make it impossible for incompetents who can neither make a living for themselves, nor sell their services to other Den tists pooling interests and by using unscrupulous tools to malign through the public press dentists who are men tally, morally and professionally their superiors. Let's have Educational, readable, timely but above all HONEST advertising and let's revoke the license of any and all who transgress from these principles. PAINLESS WITHERS, Dentist 423-428 Securities Bid g. 16th and Farnam Streets. OMAHA, NEB. Office Hours: 8:30 A. M. to 8 P. M. Sundays, 9 to 1. Beatrice Commercial Club Elects Officers for Year Beatrice. Neb., Feb. 20.-(Special.) At the annual meeting of the direc tors of the Beatrice Commercial club Tuesday night W. H. DeB ?lt was re elected president and E. C. Salisbury re-elected secretary. The t-iher offi cers are Dr. F. E. MacCracken, vice president, and J. R. Quein. treasurer. The directors discussed plan? for the coming year, and Will soi.-n begin a spring drive for new members. Will Scott, one of the rcTuits who was to go to Vancouver Barracks Tuesday with 14 others who enlisted a few days ago, was kicked in the face by a mule at his farm rfnd quite badly hurt. E. H. Morey, assistant state engi neer, was before the county Board of Supervisors Tuesday and explained the Nebraska county road system. 4 he duties of the highway commissioner and state and federal aid roads were discussed. O. H. I.iebers, formerly county agent for Qage county, has been ap pointed by Food Administrator Hoover to take charge of the pinto bean work in growing sections. University Place basket ball team won from Beatrice Tuesday night by the score of 20 to 18. At r.o stage of the contest was there a difference of four scores between the teams. Loyalty Petition Signed j State Credit Men Hold j By Many Grand islanders Meeting at Lincoln Grand Island, Neb., Feb. 20. (Spe- iFrom a staff com-tnondfti' t cial.) A petition circulated by V. II. : Lincoln. Feb. 20 (Special Tele Garmire of Grand Island, pledging ; gram.) 2 ebraska credit men opened loyalty to President Wilson, to which j their convention here today with a he obtained 507 names, has been sent I hummer of a meeting, although one to Washington. j of the best things on the program, a The petition read in part: speech by E. H. Ward, president of ve. tne undersigned citizens ana tne umana association, nad to ue sine- voters of Hall countv, Nebraska, here by renew our pledge of loyalty to you and assure you of our unwaver ing faith and confidence in your pa triotism, integrity and ability to guide our ship of state in this v;rrld war, forced upon the nation by the German emperor, and hereby assure you that Senator Hitchcock does noi. voice our sentiments." tracked because of a late train. E. W. Nelson, president of the Lincoln as sociation, filled in for Mr. Ward. Secretary J. H. Trego and President S. J. Whitlock of the National asso ciation are present. Mr. Trego spoke this evening on buiidingup the work of the association. According to the report of the association secretary there are 127 local organizations. S. J. Whitlock of Chicago is in at tendance at the meetings, which are Emperor Bill's Dentist Returns to Ohio Home An Atlantic Port, Feb. 1R Arthur M. Davis of Piqua, O., win was den tist for Emperor William of Ger many, returned to America today on a neutral steamship. He said he left Germany on January 22, having been allowed to cross the border on a mil itary pass personally signed by the emperor. Dr. Davis asserted that the Rus Man situation was the foremot topic in Berlin when he left and the devel opment at that time had caused great rejoicing. He declared the food situ ation in Germany was not so bad as had beenreported. Lincoln Traction Plant AAPh Mftpo Thin "3 Millinne i being held at the Lindell hotel. iiuiui iiiuit Mian vi ii 1 1 1 1 ui io ; More Indian Lands Added (From a Staff Corrtsponflent.) Lincoln, Feb. 20. (Special Tele gram.) Testimony being taken be fore the street railway commission on application of the Lincoln Traetion company for peumission to issue an increase of $107,000 in stock, disclosed the fact this afternoon that the valua tion of the traction property, includ ing the heating and lighting plant, was more than $.1000,000. President Sharp of the company made the fig ures $3,310,000 and Rate Expert Powell agreed that it would go over the $3,000,000. The application made at this time is in addition to a former application for an issue of $174,000, made some four months ago. Man Who Was Shot Dead. Grand Island, Neb., Feb. 20. (Spe cial Telegram.) Ja;ncs Kellogg, about 40 years of age, who was shot by William Tell at the home of Mrs. Hamlin Sunday night, died today as the result of his injuries. AH are colored. For GRAY HAIR MO matter how gray, streaked or faded your hair may be, one to three applications will make it light brown, dark brown or black, whichever shade yon desire. 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