Red Cross Chairman No. 14
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Handsome Pumps and
Oxfords In
The Popular New
Walk Over Styles
Don't fail to come and sea the new "Over the
Top Oxford" which is a beautiful combination of
black and tan.
Other very classy styles in natent, black kid,
browns and white Rheinskm cloth, military and
Louis heels.
If you want styla as well quality buy Walk
Overs. , ' '. ' , !
$4 to $10
PHOENIX and ONYX ,
SILK HOSIERY FOR MEN AND
WOMEN IN ALL COLORS.
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Bee Want Ads Are Business Boosters.
High School Girls
Give Playlet for
Red Cross Benefit
The Benson Orphans' club of the
high school, under the directionship
of Miss Mabel Shipperd, will give a
comic opera, "Pocahontas," in the as
sembly room Friday and Saturday
evenings, May 17 and 18, with a Fri
day matinee.
The proceeds are to be given to
the Red Cross.
Miss Edith Calvert, as Queen Anne,
of the first part, and Miss Ethel Or
cutt, as Pocahontas, of the second
part, are the leading characters. The
others are: Paul Kistler, Powhatan;
Madeline Gross, Ah-Meek; Barlow
Wilcox, John Smith; Earl Young,
John Rolf; John Mclnay, Ah-Hum;
John Calvert, Usher; Elvira John
son, Lady Bird, and Elizabeth Snow,
as Wah-Wah-Tay-See.
Temple Israel W omen
First to Subscribe
To Red Cross Drive
Temple Israel sisterhood has the
honor of being the first Red Cross
auxiliary to subscribe to the second
Red Cross war fund drive. A check
for $125 is this unit's contribution.
Mrs. Charles S. Elgutter is chairman
of the auxiliary, the members of
which make hospital garments each
Thursday in the Masonic temple.
Mrs. 0. C. Redick, director of the
bureau of auxiiary supplies and
cred.-tials, is highly pleased with the
start made by this unit in advance of
the opening of the big drive. Mrs.
Redick is confident the auxiliaries will
make a splendid showing.
Temple Israel women subscribed
$13,000 in the recent Liberty loan
campaign.
May quota for surgical dressings is
as follows: sponges, 50,000; 3 yards
rolls, 4,000; 8x4 dressings, 20,000;
pads, 35,000.
Dr. Irving S. Cutter has been ap
pointed director of first aid for the
Nebraska Red Cross. Dr. Cutter ia
dean of the medical college of the
Nebraska state university.
Mrs. J. McManus of the Selma
apartments recently made a beautiful
quilt, which she sold for the benefit
of American Red Cross and Armenian
and Syrian relief for $125. Mrs. T. O.
Finson bought the quilt
Mrs. Florence Bayard Helles, so
ciety leader, of Wilmington, Del., and
daughter of the late Ambassador
Thomas F. Bayard, is working eight
hours a day loading shells in a mu
nition plant near New Castle, Del.
We Will Offer for Saturday
Your Choice of Every Black and Colored
TRIMMED HAT
Formerly Selling As High As $15.00
Saturday, Your Choice, $4.00
$10.00 Choice &A 00
$12.00 Saturday V
$15.00) 0nly 1
These Hats include many from our
regular stock, but there are also a large
number that we have just received, and
will be included in this sale.
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MRS. J. N. TALIAFERRO.
Here ia a double duty chairman. She is Mrs. J. N. Taliaferro, who heads the
Douglas County Woman's Christian Temperance union auxiliary, of which
organization she is the president, and the U. S. Grant Woman's Relief corps
unit
The first auxiliary formed in July meets all day Thursdays in the Masonic
temple to make bandages; the other group is one of the Monday classes. They,
too, make surgical dressings. Besides this, Red Cross work members of both
these auxiliaries have been working in their own homes sewing on clothes for
French and Belgian babies.
Mrs. Taliaferro has a son in France serving as interpreter on Pershing's
staff. '
Women Want Rank v
For Army Nurses
A body of women known as "The
Committee to Secure Rank for Army
Nurses" is interested in obtaining
military rank for American nurses.
The executive committee of the group
is composed of Mrs. O. Have
meyer, Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch,
Di Mary Crawford, Mrs. Stuart
Henry and Mabel Armstrong Tenney
of New York.
"Letter after letter coming from
our nurses in France tell of their
need for some status which confers
authority," is the statement of the
corimittee. "One nurse writes: 'We
have no head to our units except the
one chief nurse, but everyone feels
that we could do much better work if
we had rank over the apprentices,
that is, the hospital corpsmen.' An
other says: 'I have been quartered
near a Canadian hospital, and have
met many of the nurses. I wish we
could have rank such as they have
in their army. It makes a great dif
ference in the attitude of the men.
The Canadians tell us so. and we
know it only too well ourselves.' Still
another states: 'The American nurses
doir.tr overseas duty feel the lack of
military classification very keenly;
any attempt toward giving them a
military rank will be unanimously
welcomed.' And a chief nurse, who
has had charge of an American hos
pital since the beginning of the war,
says: 'We managed to get along at
first, but now I believe for the sake
of efficiency and discipline our army
and navy nurse corps must be given
rank."
"In Canada," the committee states,
"the king's regulations and orders for
Canada militia gave in 1910 the rela
tive rank of lieutenants, captains and
in seme instances, majors, to army
nurses. The term means everything
except the commission on paper. It
means name, uniform, rank, badges,
pay, allowances, authority, and sa
lute." Vote Funds for Comrade Club.
The Comrade club is proving to be
such a successful organization that
the board of directors of the Woman's
Service league has subscribed $100 to
be used in making the dances, given
every two weeks, even more enjoya
ble. The money will be used for
buying refreshments for the parties.
It is planned to give the dances at
Keep's academy, beginning the first
of June.
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Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide
In the strife of truth with falsehood
For the good or evil side
"Lowell
There was a crisis when the great American, James Russell Lowell, penned 'the above lines. There are
those who felt that we here in Omaha had reached a crisis. And now we shall see what we shall see. Make
your own application and then let us all pull together for a "Greater and Better Omaha" every sincere citi
zen can subscribe to that slogan and if we act as we shout "All's Well With the City."
' Our school copy books used to tell us that
j "Habit Is a Cable"
Habit is a wonderful thing, the law of averages can
be calculated almost tola nicety, based on habit we
; keep a diary, a daily record covering- conditions, circum
stances, temperature and everything which in any way in
fluences or affects business.
Each year, about this time, we stage a
Great Cut Price Sale Women's Suits
; No particular reason for a sale this year. Styles are
so staple. Prices on materials, labor, etc., still advanc
ing, that it would seem to be the better part of wisdom
'to hold on and maintain prices but and here's the
,' rub our customers have certain habits also ; they know
, our habit and so they expect a sale, and we are not going
. to disappoint them.
! Here Goes Then Two Wondeful Lots
for Saturday
In the first lot of Suits
there are Navys, Rookies
and Checks; sold up to
$35.00, at $21.50. 1
In the second lot Genteelest
of models, Jersey Weave, Foiret
Twill, French Serge and Trico
tine; formerly up to $45.00, at
820.50.
It's a wee bit early for cut prices on Skirts,but luckily
for us and you, we bought a lot very favorably, away un-
der today's prices. t .
' So Saturday you will get
: Whit Gabardine Skirts, (5.00
, value, for $3.95 each. v
And by the way we have a
wonderful collection of choice
Wash Skirts from
83.05 to 810.05
Blouse Business Brisk
Plain colorings are popular. Organdy and Voile;
high or low neck; pink, lavender, cadet, corn, rose,
53.95 each.
Very big value in White Voiles, $1.98 and 2.50
each. ; '
Junior and Children's Section Suit Sale here also
Saturday. . ! ,
- t For bigger girls and smaller women, latest of mate
rials and most stunning styles.
, Pick of, a great lot on Saturday, at $17,50 each.
We Crossed the Saskatchewan on the Ice
A good many years ago we went chasing
gold away up in the land which then was
spoken of as the "Frozen North." We slept
out on the prairies every night under buffalo
robes, and broke the ice for water for cook
ing, washing and to use as a chaser. Oh,
what a grand and glorious time we had.
These thoughts comfort us as we write, and
we would fain transfer a little comfort to you
in this sizzling weather. We wonder if your
underwear clings lovingly to your skin today
and whether you have that sticky, all-overish
feeling. There's comfort for you, too yes,
joy, if you will for Saturday we place on
sale all the cool, cooler and coolest makes of
underwear v
Oh, Boy! Try the Nainsook Athletic,
checks, plaids, or plain, 79, $1.00,
$1.25; $1.50 or $2.00.
Knitted Lisle, high or low neck ; long,
short or no sleeves at all; knee length or to
the ankle, $1.00 to $3.00 each.
"Please don't advertise Hosiery or Un
derwear for Wonten for Saturday," said the
women who have charge of our Underwear
and Hosiery "Unless you advertise for Sat
urday morning only." ' "Last Saturday," said
they, "we were absolutely swamped in the
afternoon." We know they were, for we al
most went into the highways and hedges to
get additional help for them. We are not
going to advertise, but we'll have our usual
good values. We are not going to ask you
to come in the morning for you'll please
yourselves. Come when you can we'll do
the best we can.
"The Follies of Merchandising" occupy
the Toilet Goods Section again on Saturday.
Oh, we are a great crowd, spending good
money each week to have the dear people
take our goods away at cost or less. That's
what the cockney would call "deucedly
clevah." Here are the foolish prices:
Palm Olive Shampoo, 44 bottle 2
cakes of soap FREE.
Palm Olive Cold Cream, 22 and one
cake of soap FREE.
Colorite or Jetum, 19. Pebeco Tooth
Paste, 346 Non Spi, 396 Wright's Sil
ver Cream, 176 4711 Glycerine Soap,
156 Colgate's Tooth Paste, 23. Jer
gen's Soap (violet), 3 for 256 Cuticura
Soap, 196 Hind's Honey and Almond
Cream, 366 Physicians and Surgeons Soap,
8 cake. You don't have to buy something
else either in order'to get these goods at these
prices.
To My Mother
"Mother, I know, my fault be what it may,
Your lips are 'gainst my cheek, your hand in
mine;
Yours is the only love that lasts alway,
The nearest thing I know to the Divine."
These beautiful words of Katherine
Morse, come to us with the thought that
Sunday is Mother's Day.
On Saturday take the time to see
"Cobbs" Gift Box for Mother. Designed
specially for this day, filled with sweets of
unusual goodness that you, if you were an
expert in candy, would like to select for the
dearest sweetheart in all the world. Packed
at $Ot , $1.00, $2.00, $3.00, $5.00
the box.
Perhaps you will be dining with Mother
Sunday! Take a little hint from me Satur
day morning early, telephone "Cobb," Doug
las 5 1 say : "lam going to take dinner with
Mother tomorrow and I want you to send
Mother's Day Ice Cream the special kind,
made from fresh Strawberries, Pineapple,
Lemon or Red Rasberry Ice." Try it on
Mother. "Cobbs" Candy Department is the
most famous in these parts and its fame is
not only national, but international threat
ens to make Omaha famous.
Coats at $10.00
Based on today's reckoning perhaps the best buy
of all. If we could place before you properly a price
comparison, there would be a great rush. Coats for
misses, juniors and children.
Important From the Hattery
Hats for every age. All the finer trimmed to go,
making ready for the straw reception. Sold up to
$20.00, will go at $8.75.
Then there's another lot of Trimmed Hats, some
simply trimmed, almost to the point of severeness hav
ing only a ribbon, at $4.95.
From the Lon-jv-ray Section comes tidings of a
Gown Sale
Night Gowns What a joy to get off and away from
the heavier robes de nuit of winter. This lot shows all
the dainty touches so dear to the affections of refined
women lace trimmed with just the right amount of em
broidery. Cut full ; fetching to look at and cool to wear,
$2.6p they look like $5.00 value.
Summer Corsets What a relief from heavy winter
harness! is here in the summery type for sport wear.
Elastic top, mercerized materials, $2.50 each. Real
joy for hot days. i-
Camisoles in lively demand. Especially those of
Silk or Wash Satin, $1.39 and upwards.
Kilpatrick's
for Silks
Warm-weather Silks will
hold the boards on Saturday.
Tub Silks, Shantungs, Wash
Satins and all the best
things made by Mallinson &
" Co.
, If you were to ask us for advice we should be com
pelled to say: Wise Women Who Wear Gloves Should
Buy NOW." ,
Yob will find Navy Serges, Navy Whipcordg, Navy Poplins.
Rookie Twills and Jersey Cloths.