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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1919.
BUMPER CROPS
INSURED BY RAIN;
WILL STAY COOL
Downpour Is General Over
Eastern and Central Ne
braska, Iowa and the
Dakotas.
Rain is reported over eastern and
central Nebraska Sunday night, ex
tending eastward from Grand
Island. Iowa and the Dakota's also
reported showers.
Tekamah had the heaviest rain in
the state with 1.65 inches. Oakdale,
with .98 and Omaha, with .85 of an
inch, were next. Fremont had about
half an Inch and Columbus one-third
of an inch.
Auburn did not receive any of the
rain and no points south of that city
report rain. Grand Island and
points west report no rain.
Heavy Rains in Iowa.
In Iowa as far east as Des Moines
the rain continued yesterday. Heavy
rains are reported in, all parts of
western Iowa.
Railroad and grain men say the
rain came in time to insure a bumper
corn crop. The crop was in need
of rain, but the cool weather last
week prevented it being seriously
damaged. Corn planted late is in
sured a full crop by the rains.
RepWt on Corn Crop.
The Burlington railroad weekly
crop report, issued on conditions
last week on a basis of 100 per cent
for the average crop in the last 10
"BAYER CROSS" ON
GENUINE ASPIRIN
The Bee's Fund for
Free Milk and Ice
The folks out in the towns of Ne
braska appreciate what the babies
of the very poor suffer in the
large citiy in hot weather.
Four or five contributions pub
lished today come from people out
in the state. One is a check signed
by a little boy, Cecil Hawthorne of
Arcadia, Neb.
Omaha people have been very
generous also in bringing the fund
up to its present good size.
The need is still very great to
keep the milk going daily to the
scores of poor babes who are thriv
ing on it now and also to take care
of others who are on the waiting
list.
rretonrijr acknowledged SSM.tO
Friend, Lelirh. Neb 5.00
C. C. Yerdon, Neb S.00
C. M. V S.00
Cecil Howthnrne, Arcadia, Neb.. S.00
Friend, Tekamah, Neb 1.00
T.il Sfl21.tO
n::n ..... t u: -:v...
win juu acuu ui uinig a luimiuu-
tion to the fund?
Do it NOW. GIVE, out of your
comparative plenty to these little
ones who suffer for the bare neces
sities of life.
Not a cent of the fund goes for
any purpose except actually to buy
milk and ice for the babies of de
serving and very poor families.
BIG FOOD ORDER
PLACED BY CITY
TO START SALES
F 3t Municipal Distributor! of
Surplus Supples to Be
gin at 8 A. M.
Next Saturday.
My HEART and
My HUSBAND
Adele Garrison's New Phase of
Revelations
of a Wife
"Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" to be
genuine must be marked with the
safety "Bayer Cross." Always .buy
an unbroken Bayer package which
contains proper directions to safely
relieve Headache, Toothache, Ear
ache, Neuralgia, Colds and pain.
Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost
but a few cents at drug stores
larger packages also. Aspirin is the
trade mark of Bayer Manufacture
of Monoaceticacidester of Salicyl
ica:id. Adv.
years, gives the following condition
of the corn crop:
T.ast Previous
nivlslon Week Week
Omaha M 88
Lincoln K7 88
W. ...... a 7(1 7A
A short potato crop is reported,
due to continued dry weather. The
pasturage is also reported short on
the higher land.
Mexican Is Drowned In
Cand Pits Near Valley, Neb.
Simon Salapa, ir5 years old, a
Mexican fanTi hand, was drowned
at about 5:30. Sunday afternoon in
the sand pits , near .Valley, Neb.
Salapa was employed on a farm
near Valley. Together with several
companions, he left the farm Sun
day morning to go swimming in the
neighboring sand pits. '
About 5:30 he was missed by his
companions and a search for him
instigated. His lifeless body was
found in the bottom of one of the
pits. "
An inquest into the drowning may
be held, if the facts warrant such
action, it was said at the county at
torney's office. Pending an investi
gation, the body is being held at
the Brailey & Dorrance undertaking
parlors.
Very Unusual. L
"Any unusual features about this
trial ?"
"Yes, the defendant doesn't ap
pear to be the calmest man In the
room." Louisville Courier-Journal.
Mayor Smith yesterday placed
with the United States quartermas
ter's department the following ini
tial order of supplies food products,
which the city will begin to sell next
Saturday morning at the S3uth Side
city hall:
Bacon, 1,000 crates; hominy, 200
cases; rice, 100 bags; raisins, 50
cases: evaporated peaches, 1,000
pounds; canned peas, 200 cases; sy
rup (Karo) 500 cases; prunes, 1,000
pounds.
City Fixes Prices.
The city will sell these goods at
the following prices and in minimum
quantities as indicated: Bacon, 35
cents per pound, half strip; hominy,
six cans for 40 cents; rice, five
pounds for 40 cents; raisins, two
packages for 25 cents; evaporated
peaches, five pounds for 70 cents;
canned peas, six cans for 60 cents;
syrup, 10-pound can for 50 cents;
prunes, five pounds for 70 cents.
The first city sale will begin at 8
o'clock next Saturday morning in
(lie South Side city hall, with Joseph
Sherry, deputy city clerk in charge.
Sales in Omaha will be held next
week at various places, which will
be announced later.
First Order to Auditorium. v
The first order given the govern
ment will be delivered to the Aud
itorium, where the city will wrap
the goods in convenient packages
for the sale. For instance, the rice
will all be put up in five-pound
sacks.
"The raisins we will sell at two
packages for 25 cents is now being
sold in the stores for 25 cents per
package," said the mayor. "The
syrup we will sell for 50 cents per
10-pound can is being sold to the
retail trade for 80 cents per can."
The mayor explained that a rea
sonable maximum will be imposed
to prevent persons taking any ad
vantage. "People must buy in good faith.
Our purpose will be to serve the
people for their own use," the mayor
said.
Beginning next weejc, stores will
be opened in the fire engine houses
at Twenty-first and Lake streets
and Eleventh and Dorcas streets,
the former location on Mondays and
Thursdays, and the latter on Tues
days and Fridays.
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dition in ail climates and seasons;
Sealed tight - kept right. The
perfect gum in the perfect package.
After every meal
The flavor lasts
What the Telephone Brought to
Madge's Ears.
I slept so late on the morning
following Rita Brown's departure
for New York that I missed my
school train for the first time since
I had l een teaching in the Bay
View high school. As a conse
quence I barely reached the school
house in time to commence my
classes and had a chance for nothing
but most hurried colloquy with
Alice Holcombe.
"Has Mr. Stockbridge returned?"
"Not yet," she answered, "but he
telephoned me this morning, say
ing he hoped to be home this after
noon some time. He said he would
go home first and then come to the
school, but doubted whether
he would get here before classes
were ciismissed. I suppose one of
us ought to be here when he comes
even if he is late."
Her tone was wistful. I surmised
that for some reason she did't wish
to see the principal. I spoke
promptly, reassuringly.
"I think it's my own turn to take
some of the work around here.
There's no reason why I cannot
stay after school tonight until Mr.
Stockbridge conies, no matter how
late he is. , So if you have anything
on hand don t hesitate to leave
when school is out."
"I did have some business to
attend to," she hesitated, "but I
don't like to leave you here alone."
"What nonsense 1" I retorted.
"You know how late Miss Wines
and Miss Pratt always stay with
their work. Don't bother any more
about me, but tell me, have you
heard any thing from "
"Milly?" she queried as she
paused. "Not a word."
Miss Holcombe's Hesitation.
The approach of a group of pupils
put an effective stop to our conver
sation. I turned to my classroom
with a feeling of relief. Probably
Alice Holcombe was wrong in her
surmise that the principal's wife
was only biding her time to make
trouble, plotting silently the mis
chief she meant to make.
At the close of school in the after
noon this feeling had become con
viction with me. Mr. Stockbridge
had not put in an appearance at the
school, and his wife had made -no
sign that she knew either Alice
Holcombe or I were on earth. I
was ready to speed my friend
.cheerfully on her way when she
came into my classroom hatted and
gloved for the street, but with a
look of troubled uncertainty upon
her face.
"I feel as if I were shirking," she
burst out nervously. "But I cant
explain my fanciful feeling it seems
as though I could not meet Ken
neth and and tell him about Milly's
opening that desk."
Left Practically Alone.
"Why should you"? I asked in
the most matter of fact manner pos
sible. "Time enough for him to
find out when he opens th- desk.
And (while I still felt as I did about
volunteering any information con
cerning Mrs. Stockbridge's action to
her husband, yet if he asks me con
cerning the matter I shall have no
hesitancy about telling him the
truth. So run along, and peace be
with you."
I had purposely used a flippant
tone and words. But Alice Hol
combe's mood was almost hysteri
cal. Her eyes filled as she turned
away.
"I wish it could," she choked, and
the next moment she had rushed out
of the room.
I finished my own work of the
dav. nut everything in order then
went to the room where Miss Wines
a drudging, conscientious upper
grade teacher was correcting inter
minable oaoers.
"I am going to be in the office for
a while, Miss Wines, 1 explained
pleasantly, "so if vou want any
thing you will know where to find
me. Mr. Stockbridge is coming
back this afternoon.
"Oh!" The monosyllable . was
curt and to my quickened percep
tions, unpleasantly signihcant, she
Waited a few seconds, added monot
onously, "I shall not want any
thing," and turned her eyes to her
papers again.
, As I went down the stairs I kept
assuring my self that it was only
Miss Wine's way indeed. Bess
Dean's irreverent nickname for her
was "Old Grouchy," but for the next
hour yes, two, which I spent in the
office in tedious waiting for my prin
cipal's arrival, I kept remembering
uneasily the look on my colleague's
face.
But Miss Wines, indeed, every
body in the world save the woman I
so dreaded were swept from my
mind when, just as I was telling
myself that I really must not wait
any longer, the telephone rang per
emptorily, and Milly Stockbridge's
incoherent, raucous voice came to
my ears.
(Continued Tomorrow,)
Plans to Reorganize
Food Administration
Have Not Yet Begun
the Nebraska Food administration
have been made, in response to the
request of Attorney-General Palmer,
according to E. V. Parrish, in
charge of the organization in the
absence of Food Administrator G.
W. Wattles.
Mr. Parrish says the request of
the attorney-general has been for
warded to Mr. Wattles at his sum
mer home in Los Angeles, Cal., and
nothing will be done until he has
been conferred with.
County Food Administrator Allen
is out of the city and no attempt
will be made to reorganize the
Douglas county committee until he
returns.
Russ Government Party
Takes 8,000 Prisoners
London, Aug. 11. A Russian gov
ernment official statement on opera
tions in the region of Minsk, re
ceived here by wireless, says:
Our army on the eastern front
took 8.000 prisoners in July.
Sixteen members of the Tomsk
committee of the bolshevik party
have been arrested and shot."
(J. S. EXPOSURE
OF H. C. L. BLOW
TO PROFITEERS
They
Decide it Would Not Do
to Raise Prices Further
as Had Been
Planned.
While the statement given out by
the U. S. Labor Bureau to the effect
that the price of foodstuffs had been
advanced more in Omaha during re
cent months than any of the other
leading cities, was not a very good
advertisement to this city, its publi
catiqil served the public in one way.
A number of local profiteers, who
had planned on slipping over an
other advance in the price ot tood
necessities and had scheduled the
raise to take effect yesterday, de
cided it would not be a very good
time to put their scheme into effect.
The report published in The Bee
concerning Omaha s standing as a
center of high prices was issued at
the United States Bureau of Labor.
The statistics were gathered by gov
ernment attaches in this department.
These show that prices took a de
liberate upward jump over the com
pilations of May and June.
While no definite figures were
offered to show that the published
figures were not correct, many com
plaints were made to the Chamber
of Commerce declaring they were in
accurate as far as Omaha is con
cerned.
Harvey Milliken, chairman of the
bureau of publicity of the Chamber
of Commerce, says he has made an
investigation relative to the high
cost of living in different cities, and
has reached the conclusion that con
ditions in Omaha are not so much
worse than elsewhere.
Mr. Millikeen contends that in
stead of food prices having in
creased 54 per cent during July, as
reported, the increase was less than
5 per cent. According to his con
clusions, the cost of living in Omaha
is only about 1 per cent above the
average throughout the United J
states.
Woman Stabbed With
Ice Pick by Husband
Files Divorce Petition
Mary A. Philbrick, 28 years old,
who was stabbed nine times by her
husband, William A. Philbrick, while
she was operating an elevator in the
hirst National Bank building, Six
teenth and Farnam streets, on June
24, filed a petition for divorce in dis
trict court yesterday on the 'grounds
or cruelty.
She charges that her husband
threatened to kill her, ran her out of
the house with an ax, and threatened
to cut her throat with a butcher
knife on last Thanksgiving day.
She was attacked by her husband
following a quarrel which caused
her to leave home, according to her
story to police. Her husband en
tered the elevator she was running
and attempted to persuade her to
return home, she said, and when she'
refused he stabbed her with an ice
pick. He then stabbed himself near
the heart.
Philbriclf is a boilermaker. f
Mrs. Philbrick asks for the cus
tody of her three children, a tem
porary testraining arder against her
usband and alimony, in her peti
tion.
Andrew Carnegie Was
Personal Friend of
Edward Rosewater
DONATE $1,000
FOR THE FOREST
RESERVE FUND
Entire Amount ' Expected to
Be Raised by First
of Year, Says
Towl.
File as Candidates to State
Constitutional Conventon
Fremont, Neb., Aug. 11 (Spe
cial.) W. D. Holbrook of Maple,
F. E. . Liston of Nickerson and
Claierce Reckmeyer of Fremont
Saturday filed petitions as candi
dates for delegate to the state con
stitutional convention. S. S. Sid
ner and Allen Johnson had filed previously.
Andrew Carnegie was known to
inanv Omahans. He was a personal
friend of the late Edward Rose-
water, founder of The Bee. They
served together ' in the telegraph
service during the civil war.
In 1902 Mr. Carnegie donated $50,-
000 to South Omaha to erect tte
present library. At one time he
offered to aid Omaha to remodel the
present city library, but the offer
was rejected.
Mr. Carnegie also offered the
University of Nebraska the benefits
of the Carnegie Educational Foun
dation, which provides pensions for
retired professor- of the university.
The offer, which was made at the
time E. Benjamin Andrews was
chancellor, was rejected by the state
legislature.
15 Mexican Leaders in
Conspiracy Executed
El Paso, Tex., Aug. 11. Fifteen
leaders of the conspiracy to cause a
mutiny in the Chihuahua City fed
eral garrison last week and to de
liver the city over to Gen. Francisco
Villa, were executed following the
discovery of the plot, according to
an American who arrived here today
from Mexico. He said the identity
of the men executed was unknown
when he left.
At the meeting yesterday of the
good fellowship committee of the
Chamber of Commerce Roy N. Tow
of the city commission announced
that the Selden-Breck Conctruction
Co. had subscribed -$1,000 for the
fund to acquire the 2,500 acres neces-
sa to round out the forest reserve
project in the vicinity of Child s
Point.
Gommissioner Towl, in speaking
of the progress being made looking
to the purchase ofthe land, stated
that subscriptions arc coining in at
rapid rate, with indications that
the entire $100,000 will be sub
scribed before the first of next year.
Options have been taken on all the
laird that it is proposed to include
n the reserve, and prices have been
agreed upoifc
When the forest reserve is ac
quired by the city and improved by
the laying out of boulevards and
drives, according to Commissioner
Towl, it will be one of the most
beautiful park in the United States.
Welcome Home Services
For Soldiers In Church
Welcome home exercises for re
turned soldiers of the Benson Bap
tist church, Sixty-second and Maple
streets, were held Sunday night.
Rev. John Calvert, pastor of the
Benson Methodist church, who
spent a year with the Y. M. C. A.
in France, delivered the sermon.
Tribute was paid to the memory
of John Lisendee, killed in action in
the St. Mihiel sector.
The returned soldiers are George
Rodd, Fred, Roy and Charles Rob
inson, Guy Killian, Walter Hamar,
Elden Benson and Fred Nelson.
Rev. Thomas Anderson, pastor, was
present.
Educator Back From Abroad.
J. M. Hussay, 1022 North Thirty
second street, for 20 years president
of the Western Normal college at
Shenadoah, Ia. has returned from
France after a year's service with
the Y. M. C. A.
Hussay was chief educational di
rector of the central division of
American Christian association
forces in France.
Big Army Ordnance
Show Advance Agent
Is On the' Job Here
As advance agent of the arm- ord
nance recruiting party to come here
this Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
Lieut. A. V. Winton has arrived to
arrange for an exhibition of trac
tors, tanks and big guns, brought
from overseas.
The ordnance fills a train of 13
freight and fla. cars. It will arrive
here early Thursday morning and is
known as the $1,000,000 exhibit. It
consists of 28 separate pieces of ord
nance, including great field guns,
iwitzers, li5 m. m. guns, tanks,
ictors, machine shops ana every
thing that goes to make up a most
formidable artillery war unit.
The ordnance hibit will be nark
ed on the vacant space south of the
Grain exchange and will be open to
the public, free of charge, during
each day of its stay. There ill be
a parade Thursday.
Consolation.
Germany ought to cheer up. Her
future Is just as bright as that of
the American Brewers' association.
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Among the thousands of physi
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all sections of the United States,
and trained for Army service at
Fort Ri)ey, Kansas, it turned out
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