(EtlflEDY, AS BOY,
;OLD THE BEE ON
r.lAllASTREETS
.fThcseAVere the Happy Days,'
ji He Says, Telling of Start
In the Show Business.'
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..J Cou T. Kennedy, head of the car
nival shows which bear his name,
Was in Ak-Sar-Ben headauarters.
I 171? Douglas street, yesterday after
( noon, chatting: with Harold Bushea
and J. D. (Dad) Weaver.
Mr. neuneay relates tnat oU years
ago and more he was a freckled
faced, bare-footed tike in Omaha
and that the first money he ever
earned was selling: The Bee.
Tote Were Happy Days. '- "
In my boyish way I used to
ik that the old postoffice build-
was the largest buildine in the
Id it was, in my little world,"
Mr, Kennedy. hen, I re
d when The Bee building was
ed and I thought that it was
st word in construction. Those
the happy days."
Kennedy started in the show
s at Lake Manawa, where he
to take down and set ud
feo-round. He was employed
by a man who had one of
iding devices. It was strewn
e ground in sections and tt
toi Mr. Kennedy to set it
and get ', it running, or
ii be no pay, and he would
od on his own recoir.-
bemg able to take care
o-round. He relate.
ked with the pieces
ay aod all through the
e succeeded in making
it should.
rkedrso hard at a task
did at that apparatus,
r felt more proud over
ment, he related, ,
that he was going to
go-round of his own.
ded in that determina-
M A WI1IIC 11C , UUU3UI a
V eel, and then a shooting
gaiy m iw ne launcnea tus nrst
.1 traveling rarnival shnw anil nnw hp
is in his 18th year as manager,
t" f ' Like) a Home-Coming. . .
"Coming to the silver anniversary
of the Ak-Sar-Ben this season;" he
j added, "seems more like a home
;k coining for me." -
" Mr. Kennedy is a self-made man.
riHe did not do well in school, but he
made tip in perseverance what he
i lacked in book learning, ioday he
fla6-n tflA trnrlre tiprp o cnariaf
t train of 18 flat cars, seven Pullmans.
: one diner two stock cars, and two
'baggage cars. -.More than 500 per
.aoru travel with x the shows, this
, iirabef including all classes, from
v w ' . UV v i . tit- V1 1VJI J W 4 0
t Some of the employes -have been
with Mr. Kennedy 12 to IS 'years.
Ue said he owed much of his suc
cess in the carnival business to his
adoption of the- best organization
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employer must gain the 'con-
his ernployes-to achieve
wie-ofr-success. ' in any
ertakng" was a corn
Kennedy. '
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It readers.
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to See This Equestwenne and Her Pets
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WAR fVIAOE LAND
OF ORPHANS OF
LITTLER SERBIA
Over Half a Million Children
Have Lost a Parent or -Both
Conditions
Are Terrible.
Flora, the Tiny Equestrienne, and Her Pets.
Housewives Didn't
Mind Being Handed
A Lemon In This Way
Gettysburg, Pa., Sept. 27. Mr.
Consumer is still laughing heartily
over the war that took place here
recently. The battle lasted two
hours nnd was the liveliest and mer
riest that was ever staged.
Leo H. Miller started hostilities
by opening a store'with a stock of
green goods vry close to a similar
business plied by Buchl & M inter.
Miller at once began selling his
wares cheaper than his rival.
Buchl &;Minter merely ground
their teeth at this, but when Miller
began selling lemons, which had
been retailing at from 40 to 60 cents
a dozen, at 17 cents a dozen, his
competitors began to take notice
and pay back in kind. A sign was
hung up in the Buchl & Minter store,
advertising lemons at IS cents a
dozen.
From then on the signs in the two
stores began changing as fast as
they could bemade, each one a few
cents cheapeV than its predecessor,
until the price "ytfts down ";,to five
cents a dozen. ''"': ',
Both stores were overrun with
buyers to such an extent that it was;
almost impossible to get in and out.
Neither merchant would disclose
how many boxes he had disposed
of, but the purchaser for once had
the advantage and laid in a supply.
For a short time watermelons, sell
ing as low as 10 cents each.J '
Her $2,000 Made Fine Fire. r
Mckeesport, Pa.,' Sept 27. Mrs.
Alexander Sandor had no intention
of decreasing the currency in circu
lation when she started her kitchen
fire in the morning. However, she
learned to her sorrow tl ?.t, that was
what she had done. What she be
lie veil io havev been 'a bundle
of old paper was nothing less than
$2,000 in bills. . They performed
admirably the function of starting a
fire, but, Mrs, Sandor forgot all
about the fire when she discovered
the loss.
Belgrade, Sept. 27. Serbia . has
emerged from the war a country of
orphans. There are 200,000 children
who have lost both their parents,
and. about 300,000 more are bereft
of either their fathers of mothers.
These figures have been compiled
by. American Red Cross ' workers
from the latest records of the Ser
bian educational department.
In some towns of only 10,000
population there are from 2,000 to
3,000 orphans. The occupation of
Serbia for three years by the enemy
and the subseqent deportations
combined with the great retreat of
the army in 1915, - carrying some
500,000 civilians in its wake, sepa
rated numberless Children from their
parents. .
Red Cross workers visiting towns
with relief supplies of food and
clothing have found many instances
of families attempting to care for
two or three children of townspeo
ple who have died or been deported.
In other, instances groups of chil-
dren from one or more families have
been found liv.ing together in ruined
houses, the older ones caring for
the younger. , .
, The Americans seeking to relievb
i
were at first -surprised when moth--ers
refused to-be parted from their
children so that the latter could be
sent to Red Cross hospitals, for
treatment. But it became . under
standable when they learned that
these same mothers had lost two or
three other children by separation
in the last three years.
Spendthrift Starts Yolng.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 27. John
Camino, 8, gives' promise of devel
oping into a spendthrift. John
found a $100 bill on a recent morn
ing. Before noon he had a $40
bicycle, several airguns and his
arms filled with candy (and nuts.
Of the $100 bill 42 cents remained.
urncer Yvwing 10 ;
Admit Belgian Dog
Made Good In Hunt
Greensburg. Pa., Sept. 27. Cenzi
Von Edenhall, a Belgian police dog,
somewhat misnamed, now has a
steady job on the local police force,
Though she had a boni fide pedigree,
the police officials were disinclined
to put her on the payroll without
testing her. abilities.
To give Cenit a chance to fam
iliarize herself with her possible
future beat, Policeman Bob Brinker
took her through the various alleys
and streets and introduced her all
around. Then came the test on
which Cenzi was to stand or fall.
One member of the force hid him
self t in a .dark corner of an alley.
Policeman Brinker, with Cenzi iri
tow then Started t.o find him. Cenzi
was told that a desperate criminal
was to be' found and that she was
to aid in the search. - .
With her nose to the ground,
Cenzi immediately got busy and be
fore' many minutes bad elapsed a
voice from a man in great distress
called out from the alley: "Take her
off I" That was not so easy to do, as
Cenxi did not propose to let go
without a protest.
Then and there, Cenzi was signed
up as a regular, "copper.".
"Good Safe" Say Thieves,
Unable to Open It
Hartford City, Ind., Sept. 27.
"Good safe; stay with it," was the
message scrawled on a dirty piece
of paper left by robbers who made
an ineffectual attempt to blow up
the strong box in the office of the
Montpelier Lumber Company.
Society Island Snails.
Papeete, Tahiti, Sept. 27. A study
of the land snails of the Society
islands may develop a better under
Standing of the general theory of
evolution, it is believed by a pro
fessor from Columbia university,
New York, who is here doing scien
tific research work.
The Snails peculiar to these is
lands, it is said, pass through a cycle
of development in a decade that
other forms'of life require centuries
to develop.
Canada Still Under -.:,y"s..
Enormous Expense
Ottawa, Ont.(l Sept, 27. Official
estimates, just made 'public, -shov
that Canada's present warexpendi
tures, exclusive of pensions, totals
about $5UU,uw a aay. 1 ne. uuuumu"
debt has mounted to more than
J1.5C0.0OO.000.
Total war expense for August was
$14,087,000, a reduction of about
$4,500,000 aver August of 1918.
Since the end of March, the beg. li
ning of the fiscal year, capital ex
penditure for war purposes has to
talled $121,487,189, almost double
what it was for the same period last
year. -' '
An Undiscouraged Squash.
Waynesboro, Pa., Sept 27. Mrs.
William Shindledecker of Cascade,
did not care t have a squash vine
growing in her flower garden so-she
simply chopped it off and threw it
into the corner of the yard. -The
vine did not give up hope, however,
after such rude treatment. It
merely shot out another root into
the ground and now has a squash
almost as large as a man's head.
C. J. MacDonald.
John F. Hecox.
H. D. Hmtead.
Commercial Supply Company
Contractors for
Asbestos Pipe m& Boiler Coverings
Roofings of Every Description
1114 Jackson St.
DOUGLAS 8980.
OMAHA
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