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THE , OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 19, 1918.
SOUTH SIDE
SOOTH SIDE RED
CROSS CAMPAIGN
STARTS MONDAY
Chairman Buckingham's Com
mittees Arrange for Most
Thorough Canvass of Stock
- Yards and Houses.
" Plant wfre oracticallv comoleted
. Saturday on the South Side for the
big Red Cross drive which will start
. Monday morninir.
Under the chairmanship of Everett
Buckingham, vice president and gen
era! manager of the Union Stock
Yards company, committees have
arraneed for the most thorough can
vass of the South Side that has ever
been made in anv war drive.
Manv Iaree contributions have al
ready been pledged by firms and in
diviouals, and a number of commit
tees have already covered their ter
ritories and reported full quotas.
" i Plana of Packing Houses.
The four biff packing houses have
'worked out detailed plans for cover
ing the various departments. At the
Cudahy plant a committee of young
i women employes wilt visit every de
partment, in line with a system that
met with great success in the third
Liberty loan campaign.
Armour & Go. will also have a
rommittee of young women em
ployes, wearing Red Cross costumes,
who will cover the entire plant and
office. The Armour office force has
already subscribed practically 100 per
cent ' ,
Morris & Co. will distribute Red
Cross oosters throughout the plant,
and each of the 1,400 employes will
be asked to subscribe one day s pay.
Superintendent Lyle Mersey expects
to have the canvass completed in two
or three days. At the bwift plant,
the foreman of each department will
head the committee,- and the time
keepers will handle Jhe clerical work.
, House to House Canvas.
The house to house canvass will be
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Sacking houses, Stock Exchange
uilding and the Union Stock Yards
committees will report to Mr. Buck
ingham's office, and the remaining
business sections will be in charge of
B; E. Wilcox, who has divided the
territory into eight districts, each
in charge of a captain.
These districts and their captains
are: First district, A street south to
L, and Twenty-first street west to
Union Pacific tracks, captain, John
J. Markey; second district, L street
south to N; and Twenty-first street
vest to Union Pacific tracks, captain
George Gribble; third district, N
street north to South "Side city limits,
and east to the river, captain, Frank
Driml; fourth district, M street north
to Chicago & Northwestern tracks,
and west to Union Pacific tracks to
rfy limits, captain, Father Michael
Ciuba; fifth district, M street south
to city limits, and west of Union ra
tine tracks to city limits, captain, J.
U. letter: sixth district, M street
south to Union Pacific tracks, and
Twenty-fourth street west to Union
Pacific 'tracks, captain, William C
Simmons; seventh district, N street
south to W, and Twenty-fourth street
e.st to thesiver.i captain, James J.
I itigerald; eighth district, W street
south to city, limits, and Union Pa
c'fic tracks east to the river; captain,
Valiant Wallace. .
West Side Boosters' Club
To Celebrate Park Opening
The West Side Booster club will
told a special meeting at the Cori
Cta school Tuesday night. Arrange
ments will be made to celebrate the
crening of Morton park, and an Invi
tation to attend will be extended to
the new city officials. The matter of
opening and grading of Thirty-
touti iirecT, ana 01 laying a numDer
of sidewalks ordered by the last ad
ministration, will be taken up. C. B.
Roe of the Board of Public Welfare
Las been invited to talk on the plan
tin at and car of war wardens. The
fubnc is invited.
The Besse theater program carries
Fairbanks, Clark, Whelan, Arbuckle
aaa fuller.
Today, Douglas Fairb-.nks in "The
Uatrimaniac." , t
MondaypThe .Eagle's Eye" and
Douglas Fairbanks in "In Again, Out
Again."
Tuesday, Emmy Whelan in "The
Shell Game
Wednesday and Thursday, Mar-
Cuerite Clark in "Seven Swans."
Friday, Mary Fuller in "The Public
Ee Damned." '
Saturday, "Naughty, Naughty "
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j outh Side Brevities
jpr. ADariy, location, tan a. 4ia bc
t RENT Modern 6-room houae on J 4th
treat . Call So. US J.
WANTED SulwIadiM. T. W. Woolworth
mpanjr. 4811 South fwenty-Iourth (treat
LOST Iris cameo brooch In West Q
d!trtet Finder return tame to SS1S S, 10th.
tat liberal reward., - '
Wilt liiK.!!.. KiilnhU ,ha.Mn.
apartment, unfurnlahed. In Scargo block,
tooth Bid. Bent reasonable. Telephone
, tenth MS.' .,
Telephone Sooth I OS and order caee of
or Lactonade, the healthful, refreehlnt
ne Beverage, delivered to your residence.
.Aha Beverage Co.
CHICAGO METAL AND IRON CO,
ya Se to 4o per pound for rata and high
i prieea for all other junk and second
ed furniture. Call South ItCI.,
'"he Jewel Sunday school class of the
led Presbyterian church gave an enter
4tttent at the chupreh last Tuesday night,
.a. A. finodarass is Instructor of th class,
.' TD ladles auxiliary No. 1, Ancient Order
I Hibernians, will give an entertainment
1 danea Monday night at McCrann's. ball,
'aty-fourth and O streets. The public la
ted. -v, :-.
7e wish to tjank our many kind friends
t their sympathy and floral offerings at
death of our mother, Mrs. K. Hansen.
V and Mrs. 3. C Hansen, Mrs. M.
lersosi .''.-(.
r. Se Alpha Rebekah lodge will airs an an
lainmmt at th Orpheum theater. South
, Bert Thunder afternoon and night for
benefit of tb surgical dressing unit.
Auction Block," from Rex Beach's
x of tb same title, will be shown.
".'m Era Ze!gr entertained her Sunday
mA class at a picnic- at Mandan park
.arday afternoon. - Those present wore:
aaa OUve find Eva Blip, Eva Frana,
h ltrd. Vlrgl Showers, Mona Chase,
Combs, ionise Albrlck, Irene Bard,
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PUPILS TO STUMP
OMAHA TO AID IN
RED CROSS DRIVE
High School Students Form an
Army of 4-Minute Speakers
to Canvass City in Great
Campaign.
Public school boys and girls will
give 4-minute talks during the week
of the Red Cross drive. They will
speak in many places and will be ac
companied by elders.
Assistant Superintendent Ryan of
the schools has announced the fol
lowing list of these young patriots
who will help in the $100,000,000 cam
paign. High School of Commerce Leslie
Smith, Geraldine Huntoon and Anna
Burt.
Vinton Muril Grauer, Margaret
Neilsen, Mary Dailey, Hilma Peter
sen, Ruth Dickson., Murel Jones,
Richard Smith, Clarence Boyer, How
ard Huntzinger and Robert Coufal.
Juncmann Ruth Roebling, Elnora
Parks, Bernard Devry, Elizabeth
Kiser, Leon Blessie, Marie Lbrig,
Henry Kocanda, Louise Korisco and
Sam Horwich,
Mason Joseph Stern and Bessie
Handler.
Florence Ronald Yoder, Wesley
Janssen and Amelia Waage.
Lake Florence Lewis, William
O'Connor, John Spellman, Ramsey
Chapman and Ernest Weymuller.
Train Grant Astleford, Clafence
Bastian, Harry DeLanc Anton Ort,
Theodore Drdla, Anton Sofio and
Junior Jacobsen.
Hawthorne Ida Daytch, Ihelma
Martin, Lurene Anderson, Gordon
Holler, Lester Huston, Verne Robin
son and Reah Haning.
Clifton Hill Agnes Wescoat,
Beth LUmgton and Celia Gidinsky.
Comenius Irvin Vrana. Agnes
Zmrhal, Viola Kohout and Walter
Myers.
South Central Harry Oland, Sam
Samuelson. Bennie Kazlowsky and
Datnnar Sund.
Madison Joseph Marek, Geraldine
Thoinpsen and Glady Matison.
Windsor Mary Boyland, Adela
Christenson, Thomas P. Coleman.
John Conron, Edwin Edmonds, Mere
dith Fuller, George Holdrege, Alice
Janak, Helen Krug, Phillippi Miller,
Elizabeth yrtman, Anne Pearsall,
Alice Ruf, Stanley Street and John
Welpton.
South Hi'srli Alta Davis, Helen Ad-
kins, Louise Mathews, Harry Johnson
and Kuth Laverty.
Franklin Dorothy Stafford, Mar
garet Fischer and Alice Roberts.
EPISCOPAL CANVASS
OF PARISHES BEGINS
Meeting Will Be Held at Gard
ner Memorial Church This
Afternoon to Formulate .
Plans.
VETS OF CITY HALL QUAKE AS
Rine Hold Two Jobs, But Receive no Pay;
Butler Wields Ax by Firing: Ten Foremen
DAY OF FIRING DRAWS NEARER
Oldtime employes of the city hall
are in suspense over the uncertain
ty of their positions. Some are slated
to go this week, while a few will be
retained.
John Fead of the accounts and fi
nance department has been in the
city service more than 32 years. .Wil
liam Hutton, head of the sewer de
partment, has been in the service
more than25 years. Naomi Schenck
of the nublic imorovements office and
Major John Barker of the health of-
lice have seen administrations come
and go during a continuous service of
25 years. John Mauss of the build
ing inspection department, has spent
nearly 20 years in the city hall. W.
R. Adams of the park department
is a veteran. He was general super
intendent of parks and boulevards
until Mr. Hummel gave him a posi
tion of less responsibility at his old
salary' of $200 a month. Commis
sioner Falconer has indicated that he
will retain Adams.
John Mathieson, of the license de
partment, has been in the service 26
years. Among those who have re
mained through 1Z years of the Dahl
man administrations are Susie Pea
singer, Effie Turner, Harry Primeau,
John Dennison, Maynard Wilson,
Weaver as city attorney, is still in
the service of the city as member of
the Board of Public Welfare and the
City Charter convention, neither of
which carry any remuneration.
Mayor Smith does not smoke, but
it is expected that he will do a little
smoking up during the coming
week.
J. P. Butler, who aesigned as gas
commissioner, has gone to Chicago,
Washington and Mew York on an
outing. He expects to go into the
paving business when he returns.
Mayor Smith and City Attorney
Weaver are past presidents of the
Jacksonian club, an organization of
battle-scarred veterans.who have en
gaged in many contests with the
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his predecessor had, spent freejy of; J''. tV 0ay IOr lM
the department funds during the first Nacks 'n the W hal1-
Commissioner Falconer has re
signed as member of the Board of
Education.
Oldrich Jelen, Florence Hoye, Sam
uel Rothwell and A. C. Taylor.
Commissioner Butler, new superin
tendent of streets, started his re
trenchment policy by discharging 10
foremen. He will retain William
Minogue, who was with him in the
department o,f accounts and finances,
and will have J. C. Donahoe as gen
eral foreman. Mr. Butler found that
four months of this year. Three
fifths of the street cleaning fund was
expended during the first four months.
The resignation of Health Commis
sioner Connell has been received by
Commissioner Ringer. Mayor Smith
asked for the resignation.
C. S. Lovejoy and J. C. Woods of
the city engineering department re
signed to take positions with the
Union Pacific Railway company at
an increase of $35 each per month
more than the city paid them.
Maud Davis, clerk in the office of
superintendent of police, quit on Sat
urday. She has been offered a po
sition in a bank.
John A. Rine, succeeded by F. L.
It is probable that in the reorgan
ization of the departments, the asphalt
repair plant will be transferred from
the street cleaning and maintenance
department to the public improve
ments department.
"It is different from what we
thought it would be," was the plaint
of City Clerk Tom O'Connor, one of
the unfortunate ones who was caught
in the blizzard which struck the city
hall on May 7.
Opposition is being developed
against the prospective appointment
of T. B. Murray as city prosecutor
at central police court.
HEAVY WIND HITS
BRUNSWICK AND
NEARBY TOWNS
Child Injured at Clearwater
When Storm Sweeps Through
Northeast Nebraska; Da
. kota Towns in Path.
Brunswick, Neb., May 18. (Spe
cial Telegram.) A tornado swept
through this section of Nebraska
early tonight, leveling barns, houses
and timber and killing stock to the
value of several thousand dollars.
Only one casualty is reported, a
child being injured at Clearwater.
The barns blown down at Bruns
wick and in the vicinity were of a
high class. Although the reports of
havoc wrought are meager tonight,
the heaviest losses so far as is known
are:
" Brunswick and vicinity: N. P. Hen
son, stockman, barn destroyed and
cattle killed; Masse brothers, build
ings and live stock; James Snodymn,
barn damaged, stock killed. William
Josh also was a heavy loser.
At Clearwater a garage was
wrecked. Joshua Miller, Thomas
Murwood and Mrs. E. H. McGhee
lost heavily in damage to buildings
and live stock.
North of Neligh the storm left
stretches of uprooted timber and
damaged buildings. The Van Allen
and John Burger farm buildings
were damaged. ;
South Dakota Town Tit.
Mitchell, S. D., May 18. A high
windstorm, accompanied by rain and
sleet, ripped its way through Woon
socket, S. D., about 20 miles north of
here, early tonight, leveling resi
dences and other buildings. Reports
received here indicated that no one
wus killed or injured. The storm
entered the town from the southwest
and swept a narrow path.
Farm Buildings Suffer.
Aberdeen, S. D., May 18. Accom
panying heavy rainfall, which wa;
general over this part of the state, t
tornado late today demolished build
ings on a dozen farms in the vicin
ity of Groton, 20 miles east of here
Three persons received minor in
juries. There was a slight hail, but no
damage to crops. Aberdeen wa
struck by a heavy wind and rain
storm, but no serious damage wa
done.
Omaha Relatives Searcli
For Missing School Gir
"I am going to run away with the
man I love," was the only niessag
as to her whereabouts thatprettj
Lucy Smiley, a 17-year-old school girl,
left when she departed from college it
Grand Island. Her sister with whom
she had planned to spend her vacatios
found only the note when she weni
to Grand Island to meet her.
Miss Smiley is a niece of John B
Smiley, , 4426 South Twenty-secom
street, who is conducting the searck
for the missing girl.
The canvass of the parishes of the
Episcopal church for the "every mem
ber" campaign to bring out and unify
the1 spiritual and material resources
ot the church begins today.
, Friday a luncheon was given at the
Chamber of Commerce, attended by
members of Trinity church, and
similar' luncheon was participated in
at the same place Saturday by mem
bers of All Saints' church.
A meeting will be held at Gardner
Memorial church, 1716 Dodge street,
at 3 o'clock this afternoon, of the Cen
tral committee and group leaders to
formulate the plans of campaign.
The active work of the "every tnem
ber" movement of the church begins
Sunday, May 26, and continues for
the entire week.
Special speakers Sunday will be the
Kev. a. Kay, lopclca, Kan.; the Rev,
Lous G. Wood, New York; the Rev,
C C. Rollit, Minneapolis, and s
prominent layman from Topeka, Kan,
Friday. May 31. at 6:30 p. m.. a
men's supper will be given at the Ma
sonic temple, which will be addressed
by Bishop James Wise of the diocese
of Topeka, Kan. Bishop Wise is well
known in this city, having formerly
oeen rector ot &t, Martin a church on
the South Side.
Furniture, Gas Stoves,
House Furnishings,
Rugs, Ice Bo$es, Etc.
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State Furniture Co.
Taka Dodta (treat ear at depot Get
off at Hth and Dodge is front ot our
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