Nebraska Newspapers

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MANY PIONEERS
ATTEND ANNUAL
IMHUMCFIIC
Hall at Labor Temple Taxed
to Capacity at Dinner and
Program; Jefferis Makes
Principal Address.
It was a field day for the Douglas
County Association f Nebraska
Pioneers and they made the most
of it. The occasion was the annual
mid-winter picnic and it was at
tended by 200 of the men and wo
men who came, to Nebraska when it
was one of tiie outposts of civiliza
tion.' N'ot only was the picnic at
tended by these sturdy poinecrs,
but with them were something like
300 of their children and their chil-'
i dren's children. With this company
, recounting events of many years
ago, it could not help but be a hap
py and congenial gathering.
The picnic started off with a din
ner at noon, spread in the large
dining room of the Labor Temple,
where everything that would tempt
the appetite of the inner man was
spread. Following the dinner there
was a social session, at which the
pioneers recounted events and in
cidents of the long ago and then
came the program.
Praises Pioneers.
The seating capacity of the large
hall on the third floor of the Temple
building was taxed to its utmost
when President Unitt of the Pio
neers announced that everybody
would join in singing "America."
President Unitt paid a glowing trib
ute to the accomplishments of the
Nebraska pioneers and then intro
duced the pioneer of the pioneers,
not a Nebraska man, but Father
Henry DeLong, who came to Coun
cil Bluffs in 1846, and who has since
been a resident of that city.
Father DeLong, apparently as
hale, hearty and vigorous as the
average man of SO, notwithstanding
that he is 86 years old, told of his
trip from Nauvoo to Council Bluffs,
coming overland with a party of
4,000 Mormons, who, with 50 teams,
were nearly a month on the road.
In September,' 1846, he crossed the
river at a point just to the north of
where the smelter is located and by
so doing, was one of the first white
men to set foot on Nebraska soil,
not taking into consideration sol
diers at Fort Calhoun and Indian
traders then located at Belleyue.
Iowa was a wilderness, inhabited
by Indians and at Des Moines, aside
from the fort, there were only three
or four families of whites, they oc
cupying log cabins on the site of
the present city.
Many Hardships.
According to Father DeLong,
many hardships were endured by
the pioneers of the "40s." No crops
were raised and trips ISO miles dis
tant had to be made into Missouri
to buy corn for food. This was
ground in hand mills, or soaked in
the lye from wood ashes and then
converted into hominy.
Congressman Jefferis, the speaker
of the afternoon, was greeted with
liberal applause when he was intro
duced by President Unitt. He told
the pioneers that he felt it a dis
tinguished honor to be invited to
address .the men and women who
had so bmich to do in making his
tory for Nebraska and who by their
labors had been instrumental in
changing a wilderness to an area of
millions of broad acres, growing
abundant crops and inhabited by a
happy and contented people, and
adding, he said:
"You pioneers, not only of Ne
braska, have performed your duty
well. Those who came to the
shores of America before you,
came to seek a land where they
could enjoy .their religious liberty
and the liberty of thought and ac
tion without interference.
Were Loyal Citizens.
"When you came here it was not
a question of whom you were prior
to that time, nor from what
stock, or country. You were loyal
citizens and you taught your boys
and your girls to love the flag and
obey the laws of the land. You
performed your duty performed it
well and during the recent war, im
bibing the lessons learned around
your firesides, your sons rallied
aroimd one flag, doing so, almost
to the man, indicating their sin
cere sympathy with the doctrine
of a 'government for the people
and by the people.'" i
Touching upon the recent war.
Congressman Jefferis said that it is
"one thing to win the war and
another thing to pay for it." How
ever, he had no doubts but that the
country would soon enter upon an
era of prosperity. He urged that
employment be found for the re
turning soldiers and that they be
given the best the land affords.
Musical Program.
The musical, literary and feature
program in conection with the pic
nic was one of the best that the
Pioneers have ever assayed. In it
they were ably assisted by the mem
bers of the younger generation. The
opening number was a piano solo
by John A. McCreary. This was
followed by a violin solo by James
L. Mack, his sister, Miss Hattie
playing the accompanyment on the
piano. Little Miss Martha Doty en
tertained with a dance and Miss
Camilla Elliott recited, responding
with a women's suffrage selection
as an encore. Little Miss Margaret
Leary appeared in a solo dance, fol
lowed by Miss Amanda Tebbins
who sang a solo.
There were recitations by Miss
. Martina Stiles and Miss Laura- Ort
land, followed by singing by Miss
Margaret, Brown, the program clos
ing with a piano solo by Miss tllen
Moltenburg.
Before closing the festivities of
the afternoon, the nioneers extended
a vote of thanks to the Labor Tem
ple association for the use of the
rooms and to the committee that
had charge of the program.
Table Rock Youth Victim
, of Spanish Influenza
Table Rock, Neb., Feb. 22. Spe
1 A!k.- IT.nrl syH 9(1 wire
'son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fencl,
who live four miles east of Table
Rock, died last evening with pneu
mAnli fnllnwinfT influenza. Sur
viving him are a father, mother and
several brothers and sisters. Fu
neral services will be held Saturday
and the interment is to be in the
Bohemian cemetery,
Tanner Was in Wrong Seat
Not in House But Theater
Youthful Representative From Sarpy County Mistaken
for Office Boy by Docket Clerk; However He De
livered the Message That Was Given Him.
By J. H. KEARNES.
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 22. (Special.)
Representative 'Morrison, of Sar
py county, the youngest member of
the house, has such a look of
cherubic youth, that it sometimes
leads to embarrassing circumstan
ces. One day last week, Miss Jennie
Jeffries, docket clerk, in the office
of the chief" clerk of the house, was
overwhelmed with work. ' It was
necessary that a message be sent to
one of the members on the floor of
the notice, in relation to some work
she was engaged on, and, not hav
ing the time to spare to perform
the errand herself, she looked
around for a messenger.
In front of her stood the honor
able gentleman from Sarpy, his face
glowing with "the innocent look of
youth. ,
"Page," she called, beckoning im
peratively to Morrison, "take this
note and give it to Mr. McLeod, and
be quick about it!"
Morrison, who is unmarried,
blushed furiously as he took the
note, but he obeyed the feminine
mandate to the letter.
One night recently, while his fate
hung in the balance, Senator Tan
ner, whose seat in that august body
was being contested by W. J.
Broach, went to a Lincoln theater
to enjoy a show and free his mind
of the contest and the worries of
the day.
He had comfortably seated him
self in an opera chair and was scan
ning the program when an officious
usher came up and exclaimed:
"You'll have to chase yourself,
boss. You're in the wrong seat."
The challenge that there was in
the usher's manner made "Doc"
rathy and he retorted rather hotly:
"The senate of the great state of
Nebraska may be able to get my
seat and take it from me, but no
cheap show can attempt the job and
get away with it."
Possession was nine points of the
law and he held his seat.
Because of the operation of the
aw governing members of the
state board of control, a peculiar
condition will exist when the man
appointed to fill the vacancy crea
ated by the resignation, of Holcomb
will have been made by Governor
iucKclvie.
That person, a democrat, and the
junior member of the board, so far
as priority is concerned, under the
automatic operation of the law will
be the chairman of the board.
I his fact is not generally known.
but the same thing occurred when
Gene Mayficld succeeded Howard
Kennedy on the board, he became
chairman and occupied that position
tor two months.
Holcomb is the senior member of
the board and is a democrat. His
successor will inherit, under the op
eration ot the law, the dignity of
the chairmanship of the body and
it will be four years before E. A.
Allyn, the recent republican ap
pointee will be elevated to the exec
utive position on the board.
Indications are that Judge H. N.
Hensley, commandant , at the sol
dier's home at Milford, will not re
sign because of the recommenda
tions made by the senatorial com
mittee which recently investigated
state institutions that younger men
be put at the head of the homes at
Grand Island and Milford.
Commandant Walsh has already
resigned, but it is rumored that Hen
sley will demand that charges be
preferred against him and that he
be heard in a trial before the board
of control.
Mr. Hensley is a lawyer of Co
lumbus, and is 72 years of age. Un
der the law it will be practically im
possible for a younger man to be
found who can fill the place. Up to
the session of 1917 any volunteer
who had served in the army, and
who had fought in any of the wars
of this country, including the Span
ish war, was eligible to the position
of commandant at either of the two
institutions, but the legislature of
1917 amended the law so that only
civil war veterans are eligible. It
is thought that Governor McKelvie
may seek to relieve the situation by
having a special bill drawn, which
will create a new office, that of su
perintendent, to be under the com
mandant and that younger men, of
business ability and of sufficient
youth for efficiency can be ap
pointed to the administrative position
leaving the office of commandant al
most purely an honorary one.
Henry C. Cook, formerly a serg
eant on the Omaha police force, and
who is now becoming a plutocrat off
the earnings of the hives of bees
that work for him in the gladsome
summer time, and who have their
homes in his back yard, is a frequent
visitor to Lincoln during the legisla
tive session.
He is one of the leading apiarists
of the state and is interested in the
passage of a bill that will prevent
the spread of a disease among bees
that is known as "foul brood."
In the lobby of the house, one
day recently, he was discussing the
habits of bees with a group of in
terested solons and newspaper men
when Sergeant McDonald, another
Omaha police officer, joined the
gang.
The subject under discussion was
how to trace wild bees to a "bee
tree."
t Cook described the process and
McDonald, after hearing the expert
testimony, blurted out:
"Well, you've to live and learn.
I always thought a bee was like any
other bug, it lived in a hole in the
ground. This is the first time I
ever knew they grew on trees."
And the best of it is that he was
sincere in his observation.
CITIZENS WITH
EFORM IDEAS
THRONG HALLS
(Continued from rage One.)
great task they have set out to ac
complish that of reforming the
whole world by legislation.
Helped By Public.
It is aueer. too. how thev are
helped along by the public in the
attitude they take. It is a popular
ulca to cure all the evils that the
body politic is subject to by legislation.
Only the other dav a convivial
group of fellows in a Lincoln hotel
secured a bottle of contraband liq
uor, ihey found they were with
out a corkscrew and one of the
crowd, who has had a world of leg
islative experience, exclaimed pet
tishly as he tried to release the
cork with his knife:
"We ought to pass a law to com
pel hotels to equip every room with
a corkscrew."
He was just as consistent as the
great majority of the persons who
resort to the state capitol at the
present time in the interest of some
proposed reform legislation.
Right now a few women are mak
ing life miserable for members of
both houses by clamoring for a
movie censorship bill, representing
that the people of the state are
crazy for just this thing.
1 he common people are too busy
making a living, in these piping
times of Tiigh costs, to care about
Censorship of pictures. , They do
not realize the evil influence that
has crept into this sort of innocent
amusement do not see how it cor
rupts the lives of themselves or the
children it is so wholesome that it
is the most popular thing in the
state today. Yet the zealots work
ing on the susceptibilities of the
solons are painting pictures of aw
ful things that do not exist to cre
ate an artificial demand for the law.
The prime mover for the bill ad
mitted before the committee that
she has not seen more than two or
three films in her lifo, yet she
wants the job of censor, and she has
a strong army of militant sisters
helping her in her ambitions.
Strike at Credit.
Other persons are advocating
laws striking at the very credit and
integrity of the state. Some of these
laws are directed at corporations,
particularly of the utility type. The
promotors have not. been delegated
to speak but their tasks are self-imposed
and were taken on in most
cases, because of a selfish interest.
Practically everything that these
"up lift" lobbysist stand for is of
an irritating nature. They are not
fqunded on fundamentals nor are
they born of necessity.
This condition is one of the grav
est problems that confronts broad
minded and serious men during this
period of reconstruction and read
justment. Thinking men realize
that conditions in the country, and
the whole world, for that matter,
are now abnormal. With the next
swing of- the pendulum- thd country
will return to normality arid sanity
and the social and political as well
ai economical structure of we couu-
try will be based on those solid
foundations that age-long history
has proved best.
Have Members Scored.
It is unfortunate that the army of
zealots who now throng the legisla
tive halls have such easy access to
the ears of the members. It keeps
the latter from holding their auricu
lar organs to the ground and listening-to
the real calls of the people
at home. The clamor of the ex
perimenters is so deafening that it
has created a peculiar psychological
condition one of fear among the
members. Too few of the latter
are strong enough to rise above
this clamor and assert themselves
as the representatives of the great,
forceful, silent mass of voters the
mass whose power is felt in the
"landslides" that rebuke parties,
politicians and legislative members
who have wrongly interpreted the
public will.
This psychology of fear is seen in
the voting, it prevents men from
registering their honest convictions,
from voting according to their
judgment, because of the obsession
that their standing with the horde
of lobbying zealots will be impaired.
They vote with a protest in their
minds and hearts because the other
fellow does so and the other fellow
is just as scared as they are.
Son of Fremont Couple
Killed on Verdun Sector
Fremont, Neb., Feb. 22. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Private Carl Ru
dolph Wallien, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Wallien of Fremont, was
killed at Verdun October 4, accord
ing to word that reached the par
ents of the young man from the
War department.
All Omaha it praising the
practice of
Chiropractic
Have you tried it yet?
Adjustments $1 or 12 for $10
DR. BURHORN
(Palmer School Chiropractor)
Suite 414-19 Securities' Bldg.,
Cor. 16th and Farnam Sts.
Doug. 5347 Lady Attendant
Resident Phone Blsekstone Hotel
Phone Numbers Slip One's
Mind so Easily. ' The
Phone Number of
Dresher
Brothers
Cleaners
IS
Tyler 345
Dresner's cleaning plant at
2211-17 Farnam St., Omaha,
ranks among America's "Big
gest and Best."
WOLlArl WHO MAY
DE F.ii-SS EVANS
HELD ATALBANY
Gave Name of Mrs. Francis
Fromm of Omaha; Held
in Hospital for Observation.
Upon receipt of a telegram from
Riiffaln W. that a neeuliar-actinc
woman, calling herself Mrs. Francis
Fromm of Omaha, was held in an
Albany, N. Y., hospital for observa
tion, detectives employed in the
disappearance of Miss Lucy Evans,
school teacher, who Monday lett
Fnrrt bosnital and has not been
found yet, began to work on the
clue that the woman apprehended in
the east may be Miss fc-vans.
Mrs. I- t. Edwards said she knew
of no relatives of her family living
in Alhanv. "She had no monev.
either, with which to travel," said
Mrs. Edwards. The woman picked
up in the east said she was en route
to visit her sister, Mrs. Katlienne
Brown of Albany. She insisted upon
nersons in the Albany station listen
ing to her story of the crucifizion.
The Allan Detective agency ts
investigating. Prior to receipt of
the telegram by The Bee, detec
tives were working on the theory
that the school teacher, who last
August suffered a nervous break
down, was being hidden or held
prisoner in Omaha by some one
who hopes to secure part of the
small fortune the Peters Trust com
pany is administering for her.
Louis S. Strain of the detective
agency said Miss EvanS might have
gone to some one she never knew
before, and offered part of her for
tune in return for concealment while
she took legal action to dissolve the
guardianship.
Dworak Business School
Enlarges Its Quarters
Owing to the great number of pu
pils enrolling at the Dworak school
of accounting, the management has
secured practicaly all the second
floor of the building the firm occu
pies, corner Eighteenth and Farnam
streets, giving them some 3,800
square feet of floor space. This ad
ditional space has been needed for
some time as they have pupils from
many Omaha business houses. One
firm alone is represented by some
17 of its employes taking up ad
vanced accounting.
For some time E. A. Dworak has
felt the need of this increased space
to accommodate his pupils. A say
ing of Mr. Dworak's that is very
much to the point is: "increase your
efficiency to your employer and
thereby increase your income," is
proving true to many who have en
rolled at the Dworak School of Accounting.
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We bought three car loads of these superb instruments for spot cash from a man
ufacturer who needed money, and have decided to divide our profits with our customers.
TERMS TO SUIT Liberty Bonds end 17. S, S. Accepted at Full Value
Call or write at once as these $550 player pianos, to be sold at $435, will be snapped
up quickly. f
Sale Starts Monday, 8:30 A. M.
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Also 21 fine Suites at 74-59;
18 very wonderful values at
only 78.79; 20 Suites at
mly 96.82, and half a dozen
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A WAREHOUSE crowded to the limit with home furnishings of all kinds waiting to get the much seeded space in our retail stores that's the reason for
our STUPENDOUS, COMPLETE Clearance Sale. Only one more week of it next Saturday is the last day but don't wait. Such wonderful bargains as these go
quickly. Don't for one minute think that because of these sacrifice bargain pricings this stock isn't right up to the minute in style, workmanship and quality.
Every piece of it is BRAND NEW and of the BEST QUALITY EVER MADE. All you have to do is to look at it, and you will be delighted with its beauty and
Btyle and when you see the prices you are bound to say that, by comparison with any offered elsewhere, the savings are really worth while really wonderful.
We term this the WONDER SALE because never before has such DELIBERATE price cutting been made on HIGHEST quality merchandise, just in order to cleai
the space and remember, EVERYTHING is included m the sale NOTHING HELD IN RESERVE. ,
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at 90.60. A splendid living
room suite, enn nanels hark
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