THE. BEE: OMAHA. TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1920.
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COUNCIL FACES
BIG PROBLEM IN
YEARLY BUDGET
Tentative Allowances Yield
Total of $200,000 More
Than Available Big De- '
duction at Start.
The city council yesterday began
the annual task of endeavoring to
make the total budget allowance
spread out to meet the total of the
various department estimates for
1920. - v
In this instance the commissioners
have a general fund of $2,173,256,
with a necessary deduction to start
with of $150,000 account overlap in
fire and police funds for 1919", leav
ing a net total of $2,023,256 for dis
tribution. To Make Further Cuts.
Tentative allowances made yes
terday yielded a total of $200,000
more than is available.' The coun
cil will meet again this morning
to make further cuts in the esti
mates. The following is a-, comparative
list, showing the appropriations for
last year and the tentative allow
ances for this year:
191
Salaries fnr mayor and
commiMioncrs ,. 3I.5nn
Public affairs 129.00ft
Accounts and finance... 158,065
Walth , las. 000
Police 425,000
Fire 629.673
$'l,FO0
101.300
J 46.4X6
115.KO0
314.000
460,000
Brief City News
V
Min-pllaneoua funds In
flr and water supply
department ,.j ;5S.00O ;49.500
Street cleaning ; 182,000 JH2.000
Parka iso.ooo 06,000
Recreation 20,000 20,000
Public, Improvements.... 120.000 135,000
Must Allow Increases.
The police department fund is
subject to a further increase during
1920, on account of additional ex
pense incurred since the courthouse
riot. This increase for 1920 may be
charged to the 1921 fund, according
to an enactment of the recent spe
cial legislature. .
Commissioner Ziniman explained
that the fire department .will re
quire $589,673 this year for pay
roll and $40,000 for miscellaneous
expenses. Salaries were raised in
the fire and police departments
during 1919.
The tentative budget contemp
lates allowing an increase of $25,000
for the public 'library.
Discuss Health Department.
During the discussion in connec
tion with the health department.
Commissioner Butler raised the
question of whether Dr. V. C. Her
rold, head of the meat inspection
bureau, is giving all of his tine to
the work. Health Commission Ed
wards explained that Dr. Herrold is
giving satisfactory services, but is
not giving all of his time, and fur
ther stated that full time is not re
quired nor could it be had from a
man of Dr. Herrold's ability for a
salary of $2,400 a year.
The general fund which the coun
cil is distributing is made up of a
levy of 35 mills, yielding $1,848,483,
plus estimated general collections of
$324,773: ,
Permanent Location of
Army Retail Store to
Be In Millard Hotel
The army retail store, which was
moved from its original location in
the Auditorium Saturday to make
room for the Mid-West Implement
Dealers' association, will be per
manently located in the old cafeteria
of the Millard hotel. Thirteenth and
Douglas streets, it was announced
yesterday. ,
y The new store rooms, which open
(on Thirteenth street, are being re
modeled, and the store will be open
for business some time today.
The two branch stores, in the South
Side city hall and the Ak-Sar-Ben
den, will continue. to run as in the
past.
New army shoes are now on sale
at both branches and are attracting
many purchasers, according to re
ports at the zone surplus supply ,of
tice in the Army building. A car
load of frozen beef arrived here last
week, and is being sold 20 per cent
. less than the Chicago market price.
The price yesterday was 12.8 cents a
pound. It is being sold at the Oma
ha Cold Storage house, Eighth and
Farnam streets, under the super
vision of the army zone surplus sup
ply office. ;
Police Officer Must
Resign or Be Discharged
Patrolman Joseph Trumer, ap-
nnlntorl tn th nnWcr rlenartmeni
pv'.ii.u .v - I
three months ago, will be given an
opportunity to resign, .otherwise he
will beJropped from the force, fol
lowing an affair in which he was in
volved Sunday at Twenty-fourth and
Vinton streets, according to Police
Chief Eberstein.
Harry Sparger, 2929 Spring street,
stated that ne was sitting peace-
ully at ' a luncn counter wncn
rn,mr Ktran tirade of abuse and
also forced him to go to a nearby
pool hall, wnere tne omcer tele
phoned for the patrol wagon. Ernie
Bahnke endeavored to intercede in
behalf of Sparger and he, too, was
"placed under arrest
Sparger and Bahnke were re
leased upoa arrival at the police sta
tion. Witnesses asserted that
Trumer was intoxicated.
After the arrests had been made,
Sergeant Frank Rose went to Vin
ton street and accompanied Trumer
to police headquarters.
Union Pacific Heads Hold
, , A Conference In Omaha
F. W. Robinson, traffic manager
on the Oregon-Washington Railroad
d Mavitratinn rnmnanv. and VV. S.
Basinger, formerly general passen-
ger agent ot tne union racinc rail
road, now connected with the fed
eral railroad administration at
Wacliinorton. D. C. arrived in
; Omaha yesterday for a cpnference
with H. M. Adams, vice president in
charge of traffic, and Carl R. Gray,
new president ot tne union racinc
The conference was called to dis
niio'iTieTtiods for resumntinn of traf
fic management on the Union Pacific
when railroads are returned to pri
vate management March 1. The
nne&tinn nf "who is hernme traf
fir manacer of trie Vninn Pacific has
not been decided, but will be an
nounced shortly,, according to Mr,
Adams
Have Root lrlnt It Beacon Press
Varuma Cleaner Buresss-Granden Co.
- Ab. Kalman, General Insurance,
removed to 1004 W. O. W. Bldg.
D. 1984. Adv.
James V. Klnsler han removed
his law office to Room 529 First Nat
Bank bldg. Adv. .
Savltlge Marries Couple Miss
Helen Krelger and Perry D. Hig
'frlns were married by Rev. Charles
W. Savidge.
Ice Cutting Kcsunietl Ice cutting
was resumed at Carter lake Monday
morning, giving employment to
hundreds of men.
A. O. U. W. Delegates Meet A
meeting of all the delegates to the
A. O. U. W. Central committee will
be hfcld Wednesday at 8 p, m.
Dr. Lee W. Edwards, Chiropractor,
has moved his offices diagonally
across the street from his old loca
tion, and is now to be found at 306
S. Twenty-fourth street the south
west corner of Twenty-fourth and
Karnam streets in the Ottawa
block, Adv.
Judges Are Assigned District
Judge Willis G. Sears was assigned
to hold court in' Burt county, and
Distrirt Judge Arthur C. Wakeley to
hold loiirt in Washington county.
Three sessions of court are held an
nually in these two counties; which
belong to the same district as Doug
las county. The sessions are usually
very short. s
Builders' Exchange Officers
Ralph W. Kiewit was elected presi
dent of the Omaha Builders' Ex
change art the annual meeting yes
terday. William Redgwick was
elected vice president and Robert
Sanderson, secretary. New directors
are George Klene, Thomas Herd,
Harry Laufenburg, J. M. Dow, Al
bert Bloom and D. M. Potter, 1
Donovan Funeral Services The
funeral of J. J. Donovan, former
Omaha policeman, who died Jan
uary 1 while visiting relatives , at
Scranon, Fa., will be held at the
home of his son, Thomas Donovan,
1808 Military"avenue, to Holy Name
church, Forty-fifth and Binney
streets, Wednesday at 8:39 a. , m..
Burial will be in St. Marys ceme
tery. Page Minnie Wheelers If Minnie
Wheeler, 43 years, old, is in Omaha,
her daughter, Mrs. Maudie Jones,
married and living at 515 Jennings
street, Sioux City, la., would like to
hepr from her. Mrs. Jones wrote to
County Attorney Shotwell stating
that her father and mother sep
arated when she was a small child
and placed her in an orphans'
home.
Pass 'Wirough Omaha More than
150 delegates to the international
convention, Students Volunteer
Movement for Foreign Missions,
which closed at Pes Moines on Jan
uary 4, passed through Omaha Mon
day morning: on their .way to Cali
fornia, A third section was added
to train No. 1, the Union Pacific
Overland Limited, to accommodate
the Californians.
Hold Annual Meeting Stock
holders In the Standard Potash
company held their annual meeting
at the Chamber of Commerce yes
terday and elected the following as
members of the1 board of directors:
John G. Woodward, Sol. Bergman,
W. F. Sehnorr. Edgar M. Morsman,
R. D. Kirkpatrick and Frank B.
Clark. Members of the newly-elected
beard chose the following officers:
Mr. Woodward, president; Mr. Owen
vice president; Mr. Clark, secretary
and treasurer, and ..R. D. Kirkpat
rick, general manager. Mr. Wood
ward, former manager of the com
pany, gave a, detailed report of the
company's business for the past
year and prophesied a successful
"SYRUP OF FIGS"
CHILD'S LAXATIVE
Look at tongue! Remove poi
sons from stomach, liver
and bowels.
r
Says
Accept "California'1 Syrup of Fijfs
only look for the name California
on the package, then you are sure
your child is having the best and
most harmless laxative or physi.e for
the little stomach, liver and bowels.
Children love its delicious, fruity
taste. Full directions for child s
dose on each bottle. Give it without
fear. ' i
Mother! You must say Califor
nia. , .
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MOTHER'sThlEND
ExpeddntMoiiheis
Used Dy Three Generations
41 All Of ff )J(
mmo HEGUIATO COL OPT.m A1WT,CX
11 CLEAR COMPLEXION
RuddyCheeks SparklingEyes
Most Women Can Have
Says Dr. Edwards, a Wefl-Known
Ohio Physician
Dr.F.M.Edwards for 17 years treated'
scores of women for liver and bowel ail
ments. During these years he gave to
his patients a prescription made of a
few well-known vegetable ingredients
mixed with olive oil, naming them
Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets. You will
know them by their olive color.
These tablets are wonder-workers on
the liver and bowels, which cause a
normal action, carrying off the waste
and poisonous matter in one's system.
If you have a pale face, sallow look,
dull eyes, pimples, coated tongue, Head
aches, a listless, no-good feeling, all out
of sorts, inactive bowels, you take one
of Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets nightly
for a time and note the pleasing results.
Thousands of women and men take
Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets the suc
cessful substitute for calomel now and
then just to keep them fit 10c and 25c.
future. The company will take
steps to double its output during
thn vear. he said.
lecture on Evolution Beginning
Jan. 9, Rabbi Cohn will deliver a
course or lectures ai inu xemyic
Israel, setting forth the Influences of
UoT-horr ssnnnrpr. nhilosouher. UDon
the thoughts of the world. The gen
eral subject will oe cvuiuuuii.
The daos and subjects of the lec
tures wp be: Jan. 9. "Herbert
Burgess-Nash
lOMrW.
- VERYBODYS STORE" '(
Spencer and the Doctrine ot Evo
lution"; February 6, Evolution
and Religion"; Marcn 12, "Evolu
tion and Judaism"; April 16. "Evo
lution and Christianity"; May 7,
"The Goal of Evolution." The aim
of the lectures will be to deal in
popular fashion with the great
thought of evolution, which Her
bert Spencer has given to mankind.
Four Conventions
Open Today in Omaha;
Bring 2,000 Visitors
Four large conventions will open
today in Omaha. They ar- the Mid
west Implement Dealers' association
meeting at the Hotel Rome; the Ne
braska Farmers' congress at the
Hotel" Castl;; the Nebraska Farm
Women's congress on the -fifth floor
of the Orchard & Vilhclin store and
the board of directors of Women's
clubs at the Hotel Fontenelle.
All are three-dav conventions.
They are exi'ecte to bring neatly
2,000 visitors to the city. Officers of
the organisations and many dele
gates have already arrived.
Ross Wins Meet
Melbourne, Australia, Jan. 5.
Norman Ross, the American swim
mer, won the 220-yard champion
ship sprint in an athletic meet here
yesterday. Spencer and Ostericter,
Americans, won the six-day bicycle
J.
race witha purse of 300,
teen teams competed.
Four
To Cur Cold in On Day.
Tk LAXATIVE BUOMO QUININK (Tub
lets). H stops the Cough and Headache,
and works off the Cold. K. W. GROVK'i
I signature on each box. SOc.
BEE WANT ADS ARE THE
SEjff BUSINESS BOOSTERS.
Men!
Take Advantage
of This Great
Clearance
Date
The Values s
, Are Extreme
'in the
Downstairs Store
Union Suits
Medium and heavy weigbt
ecru color. i
$1.98
Worsted Union Suits
Excellent quality, silver
gray.
$2.95
Fleece Lined
Union Suits
Silver gray. :
$2.49
Natural Color Hose
3 Pair for $1
Blue Chambray
Work Shirts
$1.29
Flannel Shirts
$2.39 to $3,50
Cotton Flannel
Mittens
10c a Pair
Horsehide Gloves
and Mittens
98c to $1.50 Pr.
A Large Assortment
of Neckwear
506
Broken Line of Men's
Neckband Shirts
$1.00 Each
Mecco Hose
6 for $1.00
Heavy Vork Hose J
4 for $1.00
Special for Tuesday
10 to 11 A. M.
Boys' Brownie
i Overalls ,
73c
Sizes 2 to 8, colors, blue
khaki and stifel stripe.
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separate store in th. Downstairs. 1 ' , 4
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t This separate stoie, where well-selected, serviceable, new
Z merchandise (not shopworn or refuse from upstairs) is sold, is ;
- for the benefit of those wishing to get .the best for whatever 2
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Good merchandise need not necessarily be expensive mer-
Z chandise and our Downstairs Store Departments are particu-
larly worthy of the attention of those who wish to get good -
Z goods at true values, without the necessity of being' concerned
- as to their reliability. . 1 "
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January White Sales
' include a great
Clearance Sale of
White Enamel Ware
Tea Pots.
Rice Boilers.
3-quart Tea Kettle.
Large Mixing
Bowls.
Sauce Pots with
covers.
00
Berlin Kettles
with cover.
Milk Kettles, your choice, $1.00.
Etc., Etc.
EVERYBODYS STORE
Interest Is Centered in the
Downstairs Store
On Tuesday
Coats at $10
The Final Clearance Sale
of Women's Winter Coats
All of a very high order in styling and tai
loring. w
At a Great Reduction
No matter what style of coat you have set
your mind upon, you will find it in this sale at
a very liberal reduction in price. Each coat
is tailored according to our usual high stand
ard, and the materials are those now very
much in demand plush velour mixtures with
large storm collars, loose and belted models,
in all sizes for $10.00.
Downstairs Store
January Sale ot Ik omen9 s Novelty Lace Boots
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January's Best News tor Women in Need oi Shoes
It's news of our annual sale, held despite circumstances that would make" it almost seem im
possible, much less necessary. But we know yo u watch for this annual event, and we do not want
to disappoint you. We feel very fortunate to be able to grant you these splendid values.
483 Shoes at Less Than HALF Price
Women's 'black and novelty lace boots in many'pleasing color combinations, with high
Spanish heels and military heels mostly medium wide widths, not all sizes in each lot
Choice $2.95. Limit of two pairs to a customer.
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MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S BLACK
BUTTON SHOES in sizes 8i2 to 11 and -ll1
to 2. Exceptional values, choice,
$1,98
ODD LOT OF WOMEN'S FELT SLIP
PERS in many styles and colors, mostly
small sizes. Choice
$1.00
Downstairs Store
Final Clearance Sale of Knit Goods
Sale Starts at 9 A. M.
Conveniently arranged tables, plainly
marked prices, plenty of space and ex
tra salespeople.
The balance of a recent large purchase at
prices that are less than the cost of wool
Because of the Low Price
We cannot accept C. 0. D.'s, Ex
changes, or Phone Orders. Each sale
must be absolute.
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Women's Knit
Motor Millinery
45c
Tarns, Toques, Toboggan Caps, Etc.
The ideal hats to wear cold, wintry days
when motoring, skating, etc. Made of
Silk, Silk and Wool, Angora, 1
Brushed Wool, Vicuna
In 11 the new colors and trimmed with
fur, chenille, yarn and silk embroidery de
signs. .
Women's Beautiful
SHAWLETTES and SCARFS
75c
'i
' A large array in fast colors. There ire many of these beauti
ful shawlettes and scarfs so much in vogue this season.
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. Ideal for motoring, skating, sleighing and outdoor sports.
Made of ' !
Brushed Wool, CatneVs If air, Angora, Mohair, Vicuna
In numberless weaves, including -
Plaids, Stripes, Checks and Novel Color Combinations
Girls' Toques ,
Tarns and
Caps
25c
-Splendid for school wear. In a
gorgeous array of colors in an
gora, brushed wool, camel's hair,
silk, silk and wool, vicuna in
stripes, plaids, checks and solid
colors.
Children's
Skating Sets
45c
a Set
i
Sets Consisting of SCARFS
and TOQUES.
Made of BRUSH WOOL,
CAMEL'S HAIR, VICUNA,
in dark colors.
Women's and Misses'
Skating Sets
45c
Consisting of Pretty Scarf and Tarn
as
Just the thing for outdoor wear, for they
are so snug and comfortable. Made of
Brushed Wool, Vicuna, Mohair,
Silk and Wool
In plain, and fancy weaves in every
wanted color or color combination.
Downstairs Stors
Children's Warm
Knitted
Caps
10c
An opportunity to buy the chil
dren knitted caps that will keep
them warm and comfortable.
Plain and fancy weaves in a num
berless array of colors or color
combinations.
Boys' -
Knit School
Caps
25c
Justthe kind of caps for the
boys to wear. Made of heavy
wool yarn in plain or fancy
knitted weaves. A great variety
of colors from which to select.
Choice, 25c.