THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1919.
CITY RETAILERS
HEAR REPORTS;
ELECT OFFICERS
Send Resolution Against Lux
ury Tax to Jefferis and Ask
Aid for Jewish Relief
Fund.
At the annual meeting of the As
sociated Retailers of Omaha, held
Thursday in the Chamber of Com
merce, the following officers were
elected: President, W. S. Stryker;
ice-president, George E. Mickel;
treasurer, E. M. Flitton; secretary,
J. W. Metcalfe; board of directors,
C E. Black, E. M. Reynolds, C B.
Brown, Robert Rosenzweig, H. R.
Bowen, R. C Goddard and H. A.
Jacobberger.
The association adopted a resolu
tion favoring House Roll 9,038, by
Congressman Jefferis, to repeal
various sections of the revenue act
of 1918. The resolution reads:
"The sections sought to be re
pealed, especially that section
known as the luxury tax, have
proven injurious, vexatious and un
wieldy." A copy of the resolution
will be sent to Congressman Jef
feris. A vote of thanks was extended to
C. E. Black, the retiring president.
Secretary Metcalfe reported that
his office carries 225,000 master
cards upon which may be found a
record of buyers on credit at the
local stores. During the last year
of the association 19,455 new ac
counts were opened by members of
the association. The secretary's re
port further showed that during the
year 1881 were refused credit.
How Pershing Handled Armed Bully
Paid College Fee By Teaching Negroes
Schoolmaster Threatened By Unruly Toughs Asked
Pershing's Help One of Bullies Now in the
Penitentiary Many Looked With Disfavor on
His Teaching the Negro School.
Now to-visit the two surviving
teachers of Laclede's old school.
Both live in Kansas City, one in
Kansas City, Mo., the other across
the line in Kansas City, Kan.
George N. Elliott, the one in Kan
sas City, Mo., among the most re
spected members of the Missouri
bar, can tell one a lot about the
general. I found the old lawyer in
his office in the New York Life
building, a man about 67. '
"Yes, he said to me, "I know
a lot about John. I boarded at his
home when I taught school in La
clede, so I was given opportunity
not only to observe John in school,
but to observe him in his home. He
was a remarkable boy. Not that he
was brilliant, which he wasn't, but
that he was studious, quick to learn
and dependable.
Wanted to Be Lawyer.
"I was reading law when I lived
with the Pershings. John was much
interested in my studies. He would
discuss law with me; read it with
me sometimes. I think in those days
he seriously considered engaging in
the legal profession.
"There were two boys in one of
the lower rooms two unruly boys,
with whom their teacher was hav
ing constant trouble. She brought
the boys before me. They were
big, but 1 disciplined them, punish
ing them rather severely. They de
cided to 'get me.' I heard they had
pjotted to waylay me some dark
night on my way home. I was
somewhat alarmed. I told John and
he offered to help me. He went
about with me after dark.
Handles i Bully Rough.
"One night the boys attacked us.
The older had a knife and for a
few minutes there was quite a fight.
John disarmed the boy with the
knife gave him something with
which to remember the encounter,
too a black eye. I took care of
the younger boy. One . of those
boys, I am sorry to say, is now in
a penitentiary.
Early in life John had set for
himself a goal and that goal he
could attain only with a higher edu
cation. He was determined to go
to the Missouri State Normal
School at Kirksville. The chum of
his later Laclede school years,
Charles R. Spurgeon, Laclede's
physician in the old days, wai go
ing to that school, and this fact but
strengthened John's determination.
He would go with Charlie.
Worked Way to School.
His parents were comfortably sit
uated, but with a large family to
care for, other boys and girls to
feed and clothe and educate, they
could not do everything for their
oldest son. He must help himself
if he woHild go to Kirksville and
walk the heights of his choosing.
Came the opportunity. The negro
school in Laclede was without a
teacher. Not much of a job, La
clede folks thought, for the color
line, drawn even now in Laclede,
was drawn much finer in those days
than it is today, though it must be
confessed Laclede today has no
school for colored children.
Taught in Negro School
The day John Pershing took this
step marked an epoch in his life.
It was his first opportunity. He
grasped it. ,
How long John remained a teach
er in the negro school is something
about which Laclede' memory is
rather hazy. None with whom I
talked in Laclede could recall ex
actly. Their best recollections
fixed the time at a few months
perhaps weeks.
Years passed and he was a first
lieutenant of the Tenth United
States cavalry, one of the crack col
ored troops of the United States
army. He knew how to handle ne
gro troopers, knew how because of
those weeks or months in the little
negro school back in Laclede.
(Continued Tomorrow.)
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Money 'Mogy' Borrowed From
Newsie to Be Paid By Widow
Johnnie Monico Says He Loaned Bernstein $1,600 at
10 Per Cent Interest to Keep Restaurant of Late
"King of Newsboys" Going.
George N. Elliott, one of Persh
ing s first teachers.
My Heart and My Husband
ADELE GARRISON'S New Phase of
44 Revelations of a Wife"
What Happened When Alice Hol
combe Was Called as Witness.
Alice Holcombe burst into the
office almost as soon as Mr. Pren-
Take Elevator Save $10
MeoS If You Want the Best
Clothes at Non-Profiteering Prices
Come to Barker's
That's just what it means when you buy your clothes at this
great UPSTAIRS STORE "The Best Clothes at Non-Profiteering
Prices" for you eliminate a lot of "fol-de-rol" that
has gone to increase the price of living. It means more
money saved for you more for your wife and children if
you have them or more for your bank account and other
expenses if you haven't.
The Idea of This Great Store Is to Low
er the Cost of Men s Wearing Apparel by
Selling Better Clothes for Less Money
Here we are, twenty feet in the air, over the heads of the
high priced ground floor district yet within as easy reach.
We have entirely eliminated the most expensive features of
the clothing business, such as costly fixtures, charge ac
counts, deliveries, clearance sales and every other non-essential
item. We are right down to brass tacks. We pay cash
when we buy taking all our discounts we get cash when
we sell eliminating costly book keeping systems, losses, etc.
We have so that we can let you save.
$30 to $50
Slits and Top Coats
$20 to 4fl)
To you who are our regular patrons we wish to announce
that our fall and winter showing is more complete than ever
before in the quantity and variety of new and up-to-the-minute
styles for the young men as well as every conserva
tive model for the business men. To those of you who have
never bought here we urge that you use this opportunity to
investigate our-offer to give you better clothes for less
money.
Our Guarantee
If you can duplicate any suit
or top coat purchased here for
less than $10 more, we are
ready to refund your money.
lAEKEE
CLOTMES
STOP
16th and Farnam
2nd Floor Securities Bldg.
tiss was out of earshot. I guessed
that she had been watching for his
departure from some safe vantage
point.
"Will you tell me why you stop
ped me when I was about to throw
my job in old Prentiss s false teeth?
she demanded tempestuously. "I
had hoped" this with a note of bit
terness in her voice that you
would join me in saying that you
would resign if the school board
asked Kenneth to do so. I'm sure
most of the other girls would, and
when you gave me that signal I
could hardly believe my eyes.
"I have always found you to have
reasons for your actions, so I obeyed
you. But I can tell you that you've
got to put up a mighty good argu
ment to justify yourself. That old
puffed porpoise! If I could only get
the girls to walk out in a body and
let him and the rest of the board
take their old schooll"
Madge Speaks Plainly.
I stepped to the door, turned the
key and looked at my wrist watch.
"We've got exactly two . minutes
to settle this thing. Then we've got
to see to dismissing the pupils.
What did you tell the teachers?"
"Told 'em to hold the pupils and
put them to work in their seats until
yor or I came around and formally
dismissed 'em," she said shortly.
"Good! Now let's look facts in
the face. In. the first place there is
not a woman here who would even
consider joining you in resigning.
You're overwrought, and you think
the others look at things through
your spectacles. You see, under the
pecular conditions surrounding this
thing, a woman ranging herself on
the side of Mr. Stockbridge risks
not only her job but her reputation
which means her future positions.
They simply caunot afford to do it."
She dropped dejectedly into a
chair, all the truculence gone from
her.
"I suppose you are right," she
said, her voice flat and lifeless. "I
can see your standpoint, and I can't
blame you. But with a flash of her
former fire "it is different with
me. I'm not going to let either jbb
or reputation get in the way of
my standing by Kenneth Stock
bridge. He shall have one friend.
And if they fire him, they fire me,
too."
"And so add to the intolerable
burden he is already bearing," I said,
throwing as much irony as I could
into my voice.
"What do you mean?" she count
ered, startled.
"Did he not ask, nay command
you to keep away from him, not
to attempt to "speak to him or
send him any message until he gave
you leave? I asked earnestly.
"Depend upon it, he has some good
reason fdr his request. You prom
ised to do as he asked, and here
would break the spirit of that prom
ise irretrievably."
What She Promised.
She stared at me wide:eyed. I
saw conviction that I was right mir
rored in her face. Then she pulled
her figure erect, rose from her chair.
"All right, you win, for the pres
ent," she said tonelessly. "Come
along, let's get this raft started for
home."
As if she had buckled on an ar
mor, she went through the trying
hours of dismissal of the pupils, and
settling up of the affairs of the
srVinnl for its three davs' closing,
fvith white, inscrutable face and stiff,
haughty manner, whicn repeuea an
advances from her colleagues. Even
the summons to the coroner's in
quest, which she had expected, did
not appear to' affect her. She came
up to the assembly room where I
was working and laid it before me.
"I shall have to go in two hours,"
she said tonelessly. "I suppose you
will have to stay until the Regular
time for dismissing school."
Something in her voice made me
put my arms around her unyielding
stiff figure. '
"I shall stay here until you come
back, if it be midnight" I assured
her. -
"You know you will be a wreck
after it, no matter how things go,
and the last place you want to go
wil! be home where you will have
to put on a brave front, and mask
your real feelings."
"I know all that better than you
do?' she retorted.
"All the more reason why you
should come to me," I countered.
"Now promise me that the minute
the thing is over, you'll come
straight to me."
She waited, a long minute before
answering. I guessed that she was
still harboring resentment against
me. unjust though she herself real
ized it was, for my attitude toward
her proposal to resign her position.
But at last her face cleared.
"I'm a beast and you're a dear,"
she said "Of course I'll come back
here and I'll have good news, too,"
she added defiantly.
(Continued Monday.)
A claim for $1,600 against the
estate of "Mogy" Bernstein was
filed in county court yesterday by
Johnnie Monico, newsboy.
"Mogy," former "king of the
newsboys," was found dead from a
bullet wound in the head in hs res
taurant, 1607 Farnam street, August
IS.
There is no note or other written
evidence that Johnnie loaned his old
friend, "Mogy," the money.
To Be Paid With Interest
But the money will be paid to
the last cent with 10 per cent in
terest because the higher obligations
of honor will be observed.
"Mogy" had told his wife how
Johnnie had helped him out in his
restaurant venture. He had also
told Wayne Sawtell, his attorney
and now attorney for Mrs. Bern
stein, administratrix of the estate.
"Johnnie Monico will get every
dollar that he loaned 'Mogy,'" said
Mr. Sawtell yesterday. "'Mogy' had
told me about it, evidently so as
to fix things up in case anything
happened to him. No, he didn't tell
mi just before his apparent suicide,
but several months ago."
Sells Papers Downtown.
Johnnie Monico is the newsboy
who stands on the First National
bank corner. Sixteenth and Farnam
streets, at all hours of the day and
half the night, selling papers. He
is really a grown-up man. He
doesn't look as if he were in a posi
tion to loan $1,600.
"Yes, I loaned 'Mogy' the money
when he started his restaurant."
said Johnnie. "I didn't loan it all
at once, but $100 or a few hundred
at a time. I knew He would pay me
back. I loaned him money before
and he paid me back all right.
"He was going to pay me 10 per
cent interest on it. Besides that, he
let me eat in his restaurant free of
charge. Yes, I'd go in there for all
my meals and it never cost me a
cent.
Sold Papers Together.
"You see, 'Mogy' and I sold
papers together for a long time.
"Oh, yes, 'Mogy' was all right.
Struck by Street Car
12 Years Ago, Now
Sues Firm for $25,000
Nellie J. Nelson filed suit yester
day in district court against the
street car company, asking $25,000
damages for injuries alleged to have
been received when she was struck
by a street car more than 12 years
ago.
Miss Nelson has just passed her
18th birthday, and this, says her at
torney, is the reason why the suit
was ndt filed before. The statute
of limitations, he says, does not be
gin to run until a person has at
tained his or her majority.
Miss Nelson s petition alleges that
a street car struck her at Thirtieth
and Burdette streets the evening of
March 18. 1907. when she was 7
years old, and that she was dragged
150 feet, received numerous injuries
and was in a hospital for a month.
Athlete Refused Fight
When Held Up by Robbers
Though an athlete to a high de
cree, Bryson Nixson, 4535 South
Eighteenth street, held up" his hands
at the command of two highwaymen
Thursday night rather than attack
hem. One of the youthful highway
men held a gun on Nixon while
another went through his pockets.
The holdup occurred at Twenty
second street just south of Vinton.
Nixon told police he lost but a few
dollars to the robbers. He is prom
inent in athletics at the University
cf Nebraska.
Lakeview Park Open for
Saturday and Sunday
Tonight, tomorrow afternoon and
tomorrow night, Lakeview park will
again open the gates for the many
who have found pleasure at this re
sort this summer. Dancing, with
Al Wright and his jazz harmonists,
will be the big attraction this eve
ning as well as tomorrow afternoon
and night. The balance of the fea
tures will be operating as usual.
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I'd V loaned him more than that"
Johnnie stopped his narritive t
moment to yell: "All about the big
wreck. Read about it I" He sold
a couple of papers.
"Must be pretty good money in
selling papers here?" asked the re
porter. "Oh, fair," said Johnnie. "I
guess a coupl'a thousand a year
profits, maybe more. I work pretty
long hours. I start here about 8:30
in the morning. Then at 3:30 I go
home and sleep a little at my room,
214 North Nineteenth street, and
later come down for the late papers
and finish up the day with The
Bee's 9:30 edition.
Says Hawaiian and , ;
Negro Forced Him to
Commit a Burglary
Detectives are combing the city
for a stout Hawaiian and a tall
negro, who are said to have forced
Asel Allen, 16 years old. 902 North
Sixteenth street, at the point of
guns to break into the Basket store
at Sixteenth and Cuming streets, two
nights ago. Young Allen was ar
rested at 1 Thursday morning, when
a policeman found him coming out
of the allley behind the store, carry
ing groceries and meats. -
Allen told Chief of Detectives
Dunn that an unidentified Hawaiian
and a negro held guns on him while
he entered the store through a rear
window. He saidboth gunmen ran
when they caught sight of the po
liceman. Special Officer Burgeson, who
made the arrest, declared he heard
someone running through the alley,
but saw no one but young Allen.
"BERG
SUITS
Men's Fall
Suits
of Superior
MERIT
Refreshln g 1 y
new styles,
high waist ef
fect, longer
flared skirt,
new Ideas In
lapels and
plaits.
Fast season
styles entirely
forgotten In de
signlng these
smart creations
for fall.
They're new and
different in every
respect "except
one" the same
old "Berg Cloth
ing Co.'s" stand
ard of quality all
wool fabrics, and
that never
changes season
in and season out.
$25.00 to $75.00
Single and double-breasted models, some with belt all round,
others a half belt on most of them you can take the belt off
altogether if you wish and they still remain very smart and
stylish.
Fall Hats
The Best Ever
That's the way men express
their opinion of our new fall
creations only the good makes
and styles of America and
Europe.
Setson, Berg, Connett, Crofut
Knapp, Hawes, Jamison Hub
bard, Italian Bosalinos and
Velours, and Dubuise Paris
styles
$3.00 to $15.00
New
Furnishings
Plenty of new styles and rich
fall colorings. Shirts and neck
wear of unusual beauty. Under
wear of superior worth and
quality. Hosiery In new tones
and textures. Silk and skin
gloves of real worth. Lion Collars.
1415 Farnam Street.
School Clothes
Should Be Carried
in a
Hartmann
Wardrobe
Trunk
Genuine Cowhide Bag, $8.50
Eighteen-inch size, sewed on corners, leather
covered frame, nicely lined. Very special at $8.50.
A SPLENDID cushion top, extra deep drawer section
with hat compartment, shoe pocket and laundry
bag. Constructed of 3-ply basswood, fiber covered
and fiber bound. Fancy green cloth lining. QAO Cfl
Priced special at w"
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