THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 21, 1918.
Nebraska
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. NAME ON PETITION
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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
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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
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-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-
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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.
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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.
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Veteran Newspaperman Dies.
Wilmington", N. C, Feb' 20. Ma
jor, M. H. Bernard, founder of the
Wilmington Star, died yesterday after
a brief illness. He was 82 vears old.
To Total Assessment RoK
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln. Feb. 20. (Special.) Addi
ional reports to the office of State
Auditor Smith from two of the three
Indian reservations add to the total
new acreage of the state.
The Omaha reservation makes an
addition of 97 tracts for a total of
5,130.00 acres, while the Winnebago
agency reports 87 tracts for a total
of 4,591.39.
Added to the reports already in
from the land offices, there will be an
increase of 1,840 tracts for an increase
of 680,633.12 acres. The Santee agency
has yet to report,.
Treasurer Hall Advises
Higher Interest Rates
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, Feb. 20. (Special.) At
the next meeting of the state board
of educational lands and funds, State
Treasurer George Hall will recom
mend that the interest rate on bond
be raised from 5 to 5 1-2 per cent. j
He believes that it will be just as
easy to dispose of the higher rate
bonds as though they remained at the j
present figures.
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