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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1918)
12 THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 25. 1918. SICK SOLDIERS NOT FORGOTTEN ON CHRISTMAS Boys in Hospitals at Forts Crook and Omaha Well Cared for by Red Cross. Christmas for sick soldiers in the post hospitals at Fort Crook and Fort Omaha was provided Tuesday afternoon by the Red Cross hospital comforts committee, headed by Mrs. VV'. S. Wiley. Ice cream and cake, boxes of candy, nuts, raisins and fruit and individual utility bags were provided for each soldier. The treat best appreciated was the "letter from home," fur which Mrs. Wiley's committee had made special arrangement. Weeks in advance, '.the committee wrote to the families of sick soldiers, requesting the letter to arrive yesterday. The utility bags, made under the supervision of Mrs. J, H. Conrad, hang at the head of each bed. They are containers for the soldier's toilet articles, station ery and personal belongings. Monday, Mrs. Wiley, Mrs. Her bert Rogers and Mr?. Frank W. Judson, with the assistance of eight soldier v.dunfrers decorated the nt hospitals at Fort Omaha. Mrs. W. B. Tag and i'is Keiue decorated Fort Crook with holiday greens. A lighted Christmas tree was placed in the corridor of each hospital. The musical program had to be abandoned at Fort Omaha but was given at Fort Crook. Funston Soldiers Will Be Discharged at Rapid Rate With the Union Pacific next week promises to be a busy one with the lines operating out of Camp run ston. Advices from there indicate that soldiers will he discharged at the rate of around 1,000 daily. Of the meii that are to go, a laiyc number are from Kansas, Nebraski Missouri, and, as a result, the Uni'vi Tacihc i not going to jet -he long haul. According to I'nion Pacific offi cials, the release of Camp Funsters soldiers that has been going on for three weeks, is beginning to he noticed. Some of the barracks are nearly deserted, and at no place on the camp grounds are the buildings crowded. A considerable number of men from other points are re ing brought in to be mustered Out and sent home, but this number is nothing like as great as .compared with the regular camp discharges from service. Christmas Mail Records in Omaha Broken This Season More mail has poured into the Omaha post office this Christmas than ever before in its history. Many tons of parcel post mail has been rcceivedkcvcry day for several weeks and yesterday the heaviest lot of first class mail ever handled here was received. Hundreds of thous ands of Christmas cards and Christ mas letters were mailed Monday and Tuesday. Every table and truck and basket and tub in the la:ge mailing rooms at the post office was piled high with letters' Scores of mail sacks, filled to bursting, were brought to the posj office with every delivery. A shipment of mail and packages from overseas received here yes terday and, it looks as though every one of the 2.000.000 United States soldiers in France had written to friends in'Omaha. The Marine's Christmas Gift "With the compliments of Fritz I left him at Chateau Thierry." Sergt. Victor Roos Receives His Discharge from Army Victor if. Roos is again "The Cycle Man" having received an honorable discharge irnm the U. S. Army Balloon school at Fort Oma ha. Mr. Roos enlisted there last summer and has be'.n serving Un cle 5am as motor instructor. In the air service many men are trained as automobile and motor cycle mechanics and i:"ivcrs and arc put through a thorough course of ins'ruction of fitting them for field duty. - Welfare Board to Give . Fifty Women Xmas Dinner A Christmas dinner will be given Christfnas day at 2 o'clock to the 50 women in the detention home, bv the Welfare board workers, headed by Mrs. Dr. Jennie Caltas. Mrs. Calfas has secured 50 pounds of ttr !;ey, 30 pour.ds of candy, ".it;-, ap ples, nuts nopcun and other good things for the 'Cast. IN THE DIVORCE COURT. A divorce petition filed by Stella M. Griffith alleges that Charles M. Griffith, mechanic, addicted to outbursts of a violent temper and has a rnchant. of breaking furniture and dishes. She further alleges that her mother-in-law lived rfl-arby. and criticed her. Mrs. Grif fith makes this specific cbarne In her pe tition: "That in April, IMS. the de fendant told pUntiff ttuit he was in love with a young lady residing in Oinaha, and that he Intended to mrary kfr. end urgel plaintiff to obialn a divorce." She also charges that she met her husband In a public thoroughfare with the "young lady." Griffith has two children by a former mar riage. He married Mrs. Griffith In Coun cil Bluffs, January 15, 1913. The divorce case of Jessie L. against Dolly Long, has been disposed of by giv ing the husband a decree and awarding the custody t two minor children to the wife. Mr. Long charges his wife with abandonment. MANNING TURNS DOWN THEATER MEN'S REQUEST Refuses to Modify Every Other Row Order; Strict Quarantine lHow in Effect. A decree of divorce aud custody of two minor ehildren have been granted to Char lotte M. Davey in her action against George E. Davey. Sarah E. Petty has been allowed a de. ere and custody of two minor children. She charged Albert B. Petty with extreme cruelty. Fred Archer haa filed an answer and erosa-petltlon In reply to Elizabeth Arch er'a petition 'for a divorce. The husband chargea his wife with frequenting rlace of amusement with strange men. A petition for divorce filed by Iren against John Golden, alleges that the hus band pulled his wife's hair and struilt her. She chargea non-support and as'ns for a decree and restoration of her former name, Irene Messick. The Ooldena were married In St. Lous, May 11. 1115. ' File Cured la 8 to 14 Day DrnggisU refiind money if PAZO OINT MENT fails to eure Itching. Blind. Bleed ing or Protruding piles. Stops Irritatoo, Soothes and Heals. Yoq can get restful itceB titer the first application. Price !, Omaha theater men held a meet ing yesterday afternoon with Health Commissioner Manning to urge him to lift the "every-other-row" order which, now applies to all theater;. and moving picture houses. J hey declared themselves anxious to do everything possible to he'o stamp out the epidemic of Spanish influenza, but they oppose the order in tne first place because they be lieve it does no good, and in the second ph ce because closing oans have been of no avail in stopping the epdimeic, they said. "If closing public places will curb the epidemic, then let us have every thing closed up tight, said W. K. Burrress. Profits, in the minds of the theatrical men, are a seco idary consideration to life and health. If we believed that closing would do any good, we would want our houses shut up tight. And if the health commissi ner believes that every other row being vacant in a theater does any good, then why not close up the stores where enormous crowds congregate, especially in the ID-cent stores. V. R. Byrne pointed out that the: statistics in New York, Kansas City and Denver where there have been no closing orders show that the epi demic has been no w'orse there than in Omaha. Manning Remains Firm. Dr. O. S. Hoffman came with the theater men and gave it as his opin ion that the closing order was not of any material value in curbing the epidemic. The theater men were unable to move Dr. Manning from his posi tion. They proposed that the "skip row" rder be lifted on Sundays and holidays, but Dr. Manning declined to do even this. They pointed out that great crowds gather in the lobbies, waiting to get in and that thus the cro- ding of people be cause of the "skip-row" order is actually increased, rather than di minished. Dr. Manning said he thought. from the looks of reports at present that the order on the theaters may j lifted soon after the first of the year. Tack Up Blue Cords. Six men went out from the city health office Tuesday morning to tack un big, blue quarantine cards on houses where there is Spanish influenza in conformity of the order of the state board c. health taking "fluj a quarantinable disease with restrictions as rigid as in the case of smallpox. An immediate, effect of the quar antine order was noted in the big drop in the number of new cases re ported to the health office. Up to noon Tuesday only three new cases had been reported in place of the usual 25 to 100. This bears out the belief of Dr. Manning that many of the cases heretofore reported were merely se vere colds. "With the rigid quarantine in ef fect doctors and patients will not call a sickness Spanish influenza unless it reallv and truly is," said Dr. Man ning. Rules of Quarantine. Leaflets of rules are also beins distributed by the health department, reading as follows; The state board of health has placed In fluenza on the liat of quarantinable dis eases. It la the duty of the Omaha health department to enforce these regulations to the letter. The following Instructions are.glren .for your guidance: Ail inmates of jur bouse who hare been In contact with the diseased person must remain in the house until the quar antine Is released. The state health de. I partment requires that no exceptions be made to this rule. No person except the doctor and nurse is allowed to enter or leave the house while the quarantine sign Is on. Necessary supplies may be brought to the house and left outside the door. Soiled clothes may be Bent to th laundry If placed In a package covered with paper. Handkerchiefs should not be used 'n the s'ck room. Guaze or cloths should be substituted and these should be burned when soiled. Inmates of the house other than thoe necessary to care for the patient should avoid the sick room. The health department will release tne quarantine when the doctor Informs us that there Is no longer contagion. He can only do this when there has been uo fever for four days. Fumigation is unnecessary. Any one ylolatlng the provisions of the quarantine will be fined from J15 to S100. CITY TO ORDER OAS MAINS UP STREETS Picture Showing Life in Navy Reviewed at Rialto "The Making of a Sailor," an official navy picture and a pictor ial record of the navy's wonderful preparation for its siiare in the great struggle for the freedom of the seas, was reviewed yesterday at the Rialto theater by members of the local recruiting station and was greeted as an enthusiastic success "It is my urgent wish," says En sign F. G. Condict, of the local re cruiting station, "tint every parent having a son in the navy should see the wonderful training and cere ful treatment which our boys have undergone.' i The "Making of a Sailor" is a wonderful revelation of how Uncle Sam increased his navy from 65.000 to 525,000 and at the same time pro vided better facilities and an even more thorough training for them. Ask Foreclosure of Lien on St. Cecilia's Cathedral George A. Hoagland and William V. Hoagland. doing a general lum ber business in the name of George A. Hoagland and company, have sued the St. Cecilia's corporation, the Ro man Catholic Building board. Charles S. Nelson, A. Schall com pany and Stull Bros., in the sum of $.5,150.85. It is alleged that the amount is due for goods, wares and merchan dise delivered to the new cathedral. The petitioners have asked the dis trict court to cause a foreclosure on a mechanic's lien which is said to be of record. But Does Not Expect Order to Be Obeyed; Proceeding is Simply a Matter of Record. Corporation Counsel Lambert has prepared an ordinance which will be introduced to city council Thurs day ordering the Omaha Gas com pany to remove its pipes and other property from the streets of the city of Omaha. ' Of course, the company is not ex pected to obey the order. It is, Mr. Lambert says, a legal safeguard against any proceedings by the com pany toward getting the courts to rule that it has a right to an exten sion of its franchise. Commissioner Butler agreed to hold up an ordinance he had pre pared for introduction Tuesday. It was stated that passage of such an ordinance might jeopardize the po sition of the city in tht condemna tion proceedings " now going on against the gas company. Mr. Lambert's ordinance provides that the city shall "suffer" the con tinued use of the streets and alleys by the mains of the gas company on condition that the company pay 5 cents per thousand feet of gas sold as a rental of the public "streets and alleys. This is to take the place of the royalty the city received of 5 cents per thousand feet until the ex piration of the company's franchise last Friday. Mr. Lambert's ordinance also lim its the company to the present price of gas during the condemnation pro ceedings and until the plant is taken over by the city. Simmons Will Head Mission for Red Cross in Siberia Washington, Dec. 24 The Ameri can Red Cross is about to send a special mission to Siberia to inves tigate conditions there for the war council. It will be headed by George W. Simmons, a St. Louis merchant. A MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR To All of You, Is the Wish of K AYOEN li Li THE CASH STORE Closed All Day Christmas Thursday, Dec. 26th, begins our Annual Year-End Clearance of Women's Ready-to-Wear Apparel. Watch our windows and ads. JT PAYS TRY. HAYDEN'S FIRST IT. PAYS. j Omaha Men Stuck in Snow Storm Between Omaha and Chicago The meeting of the executive com mittee of the Chamber of Commerce had to be called off Tuesday on ac count of the delayed return of the officials who went to Chicago Sun day night in conmvtion with the Trail smissippi congress. A telegram was i reived just be fore noon from Commissioner Man ley at Creston, la., stating. R. C. Howe, T. C. Byrne, John W. Gam ble, C. C. George and himself were delayed on account of snow storms between here and Uiieago. The executive committee was ex pected to meet with Mavor Smith at noon, when the suite a" of the mu nicipal arbitration board was to have been considered. MissMolby Comes to Direct Recreational Work Here Miss Nora Molby of Nashville Tcnn., has arrived to direct reci op tional work for the V. W. C. Miss Molby is sent by the Xation.t, War Work council of the assoc a tion. Association secretaries v.ili continue their organization work a. before, Miss Molby to supervise onlv recreational features. Her work in Omaha has been hampered so fv j by the influenza epidemic. Khaki Boys Wrap Packages at the Army and Navy Club The Army and Xuw club was a busy pljce all week, tor the men .:' khaki come to t he club to vr.in their Christn)a packages befote sending them to "mother" and "the best giil." Three hundred soldiers were at the club Sunday. Arrangements for the canteen proposed to be installed by the Na tional League for Woman's Scrvict are now being considered. m Year End Clearance Women's Ready to-Wear Outer Apparel i Beginning Thursday, Dec. 26th HAY1EN THE CASH STORE Beginning Thursday, Dec. 26th The Apparel Sale Event Supreme Many Thousand of Dollars Worth of Women's and Misses' cloth COATS, cioth SUITS, silk DRESSES a nn Regular Low Cash Prices MM F 1 ' $150 Cloth Coats, $75.00 $125 Cloth Coats, $62.50 $98 Cloth Coats, $49.00 $89 Cloth Coats, $44.50 $79 Cloth Coats, $39.50 $65 Cloth Coats, $32.50 $59 Cloth Coats, $29.50 $49 Cloth Coats, $24.50 $39.50 Cloth Coats,$19.75 $35 Cloth Coats, $17.50 A wonderfully broad assortment of the season's newest styles in all most popular colorings and materials. The Stylish Suits j& At Just Half $150 Suits, now $75.00 $125 Suits, now $62.50 $98 00 Suits, now $49.00 $79.00 Suits, now $39.50 $65.00 Suits, now $32.50 $49.00 Suits, now $24.50 $39.50 Suits, now $19.75 $29.50 Suits, now $14.75 $25.00 Suits, now $12.50 An Almost unlimited variety of classy styles for selection. All Fur Sets, Scarfs j nrr and Muffs at 4vlf Beautiful Dresses At Just Half $98.00 Dresses, now $49.00 $75.00 Dresses, now $37.50 $65.00 Dresses, now $32.50 $59.00 Dresses, now $29.50 $49.00 Dresses, now $24.50 $39.50 Dresses, now $19.75 $35.00 Dresses, now$17.50 $29.50 Dresses, now $14.75 $25.00 Dresses, now $12.50 Elegant designs suitable for all occa sions, the season's newest ideas and most wanted colors. All Stylish Stout Suit, y A ff Coats and Dresses at '4 vll All Plush Coats at 25 Off The Fur Coats at 25 Off A more pleasing assortment of styles, a greater variety of wanted and dependable furs it would be hard to find,, a quick reduction of stock is the only reason for this general reduction of one-fourth from regular low price. Space will permit mention of but a few of these splendid Fur Coat Bargains. $450 Hudson Seal Coats o inches long, with Beaver, $325.00 $425 Hudson Seal Coats 48 inch.s long, with squirrel cape border and cuffs, $318.75 $150 Muskrat Coats l2, 40 and oO inches long, $112.50 $298 Hudson Seal Coats and Brook Mink Coats, $223.50 $275 Silver Seal Coats With Beaver, $206.25 $198 Muskrat Coats 45 inches long. $148.50 do? 1T Three Interesting Morning Specials for Thursday 1,000 Taffeta Silk Dress Skirts, sold up to. $10.00, Thursdav A. M. at. $5.95 100 Taffeta Silk Dresses, $15.00 values, Thursdav. at only $7.50 100 Silk Petticoats, worth up to $7.50, Thursdav, at only $J.95 T TRTTRTY ROWnQ Taken a Market Value in Exchange LjIDUKI I BUlNUd for Merchandise Purchased Here lit Pays. TRY HAYDEN'S FIRST. It Pays! in i
