THE BEE : OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1920.
ONLY FOUR BIDS
ARE RECEIVED ON
COUNTY PAVING
tfmmissioners Disappointed
at Opening Prices Range
From $4 to $5.45 Per
Square Yard for Brick.
Only four contractors bid on the
first "bitch" of Douglas county road
paving, and even these bid en but
part of the roads for which bids
were advertised.
The results were a -great disap
pointment to the county commis
sioners, who opened the bids yes
terday.
BidJ had been asked on five differ
ent projects, covering the Lincoln
Highway to the Dodge county line,
tne Washington Highway to the
Washington county' line and the
O-L-D road to the Sarpy county
line, totalling about 25 miles. Bids
were asked on brick, asphalt, con
crete and bitulithic navintr.
Davidson & Baird bid on the Lin
e-In Highway work, but only for
concrete, at $4 a square yard, which
woufd total about $42,320 a mile.
William Horrabin of Iowa City, la.,
bid on this work and on the O-L-D
road at $5.45 for brick and $4.40 for
bitulithic.
The Allied Contractors, Inc.,
Omaha, bid $5.25 for brick and $4.35
' for bitlyiHthic on part of the work.
' Hugh Murphy Construction com
pany bid on a small part of the work
at $5.50 a square vara lor dock,
$4.45 for bithulithic and $4.45 for
asphalt. ' . '
, The bid on brick paving would
amount to approximately $57,700 per
mile. This is much higher than the
county commissioners and engineer
expected when the $3,000,000 bond
issue was voted to "pave 115 miles
of Douglas county roads with
brick." At this price the $3,000,000
will pave only about 53 miles with
brick.
State Engineer Johnson was
present when the bids were opened.
Urges Government to
Use War Material to
Make Signals to Mars
' Bryn Mawr, Feb. 24. Use of the
government's surplus of smoke mak
ing material left over from the war
in signalling Mars was suggested
todav bv lames J. Crenshaw, asso
ciated professor of chemistry at
Bryn Mawr college, wno servea in
the chemical warfare section of the
American expeditionary forces.
Smoke screens hundreds of miles in
width, he believes, would be more
likely to be discerned by possible
Martians than the geometrical de
signs which Sir Oliver Lodge sug-
Jested be hid out on the Sahara
esert.
The government has enough
smoke making material to create a
tremendous screen or spot on the
earth and this material can be used
for no other purpose, Professor
Crenshaw said. He advocated cov
ering an area as big as the state of
Pennsylvania with either black or
white smoke.
Professor Crenshaw , believes It
would he possible to make the spot
ttppear and disappear by regulating
the flow of smoke.
"Public Setitiment" New
Weekly to Combat the
Latter Day Fanatics
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Tnbflo. Sentiment" Is the name
tt My new weekly, first, copies of
which, it is announced, will be issued
within the next two weeks by the
Public Sentiment Publishing com
pany, offices in the Patterson block.
The company, it is stated, is in
corporated for $50,000, and backed
by Nebraska and Iowa business
men. George H. Dodds, Omaha
advertising man and former acting
secretary of Ak-Sar-Ben, is an
nounced as business manager of the
new magazine and Thomas McMa
hon, Omaha newspaperman, as edi
tor. The publication will be independ
ent in politics and national in scope,
it is stated. It's announcement of
policy follows: '
"Public Sentiment is dedicated to
the proposition that individual lib
erty is worthy of conservation, and
it -will oppose all . fanatics who
would impose upon Americans leg
islation that tends to deprive citizens
of liberties the constitution meant
to perpetuate."
Civilian Witnesses to
Be Heard In Probe of
Florence Fire Charges
City Commissioner Zimman, su
perintendent of the fire department,
went to Florence yesterday to obtain
list of civilian witnesses who will
testify to the circumstances attend
ing a fire that occurred early Sun
day morning at the home of-Dr. A.
B. Adams, 8406 North Thirtieth
street.
Mr. Zimman expects to give these
witnesses a hearing in Florence
' Wednesday, afternoon. ' This is in
connection with informal charges of
cowardice against members of fire
company No. 24, stationed at
Florence. .
Automobile Row Begins to
"Doll Up" for Annual Show
Automobile row begins to look
like a great show place.
Distributors are in the midst of
remodeling and decorating their
show rooms for the 15th annual ex
position next week. Painters' elec
tricions and carpenters are working
night and day to get things in shape.
"Omaha automobile men certain
ly are doing their best to make
Omaha attractive for show visitors "
said Manager Clarke G. Powell
Thev know that our show is to be
the biggest and grandest event eyer.
and they're preparing-accordingly.
Every distributor has reported to
Mr. Powell that- next week will
bring twice as many dealers to
OmAha as any previous show.
My HEART and
My HUSBAND
Adele Garrison's New Phase of
Revelations
of a Wife
What Alice Holcombe's "Exhibits"
Proved to Madge.
For a minute after I handed the
brown paper parcel back to her,
Alice Holcombe sat looking intent
ly at me.
"What a dear you are 1", she said
earnestly at last.
"Thank you. I'll admit that, coy
ly," I laughed, "insist upon it if you
show signs of believing' something
else, so we'll consider that settled.
Open your parcel."
I saw that I had struck the rieht
note with her. She, who usually
dominated everyone around her,
needed to be ruled and guided if
she were to escape a bad nervous
breakdown, or to be any help to the
man she loved so faithfully.
"Oh, yes," she said nervously.
"Here they all are, just as they
came to me. You see, I have num
bered them in the date of their com
ing." . . .
She was undoing the parcel as she
spoke, and in another minute I held
in my hand a collection of en
velopes, all addressed in typewritten
characters,- to "Miss Alice Hol
combe, Bayview High School, Bay
view." "Anonymous letters?" I exclaimed,
and my thoughts flew back to the
time when I had suffered from a
similar evil thing. But those were
different, most business-like looking
envelopes, the stamped variety
which the postoffices sell, and there
was no attempt at disguise of the
address. They were all addressed
on . the same typewriter I judged
from a hasty comparison of them
and, except for the dates of mail
ing, they might have been dupli
cates. A Clear Appeal.
The ones I had received in that
never-to-be-forgotten time were
bizarre-looking things, whose very
appearance drew suspicion to them.
But one purpose then had been to
call the suspicious attention of other
people to my mail. , In the case of
Alice Holcombe there evidently was
the wish to make the outside of the
envelopes look as common-place as
possible.
"Not exactly," Alice replied, "but
something very near it."
I drew the enclosure from the en
velope of the earliest date as she
spoke and spread it out before me.
It was an advertisement clipped
from the page of a well known
woman's magazine, which set forth
the merits of a certain brand of teal
The dismayed gasp of astonish
ment that issued from my lips was
something I could not repress, al
though I could have flayed myself
for it the next instant. For Alice
Holcombe had heard me, and her
face whitened.
Oh, do you know what it means?"
she asked pitifully. "I was so in
the dark, so frightened " -
"I have no more idea than vou
have," I retorted sharnlv. then I
. . . . . ... -.
naa an inspiration. it may be
exactly what it purports to be. a
clever way of calling a woman's at
tention to this particular brand. Do
yOu happen to know whether any
other woman you know has re
ceived anything like this?"
The Cryptic Message.
I was talking the most arrant
nonsense and I knew it. But didn't
wish to have Alice Holcombe anv
more frightened than she was at that
moment I told myself sternly that
l must let no hint of my own agi
tation appear again.
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I Did You I
Get One of Those Big Piano
Bargains at
Schmoller & Mueller Pianb Co.
Yesterday?
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On Sale, New
Wellington, 'mahogany. .$135
Carleton, ebony . .$135
Schmoller & Mueller, ma
hogany ....$225
Schmoller & Meuller, art $310
Knabe, very fine. . , . . . .$275
King, Oak, special. ... .$275
Remember 3 yean in
which to pay.
See Them Now.
If you can't come in,
phone us and our represen
tative will .see you.
SchciollerG Mueller
Piano Co.
131M313 Farnam St.
Phone Doug. 1623.
61 years continuous succasa
ful business.
'"I haven't dared to ask," Alice
replied.
"Of course, that's so," I returned
in a mater-of-fact tone. "Perhaps
the others will give us some clue."
With fingers that required all my
will power to keep from trembling. I
took the other enclosures from the
numbered evelopes, scrutinized them
carefully and compared them with
the first.
They were all cunningly devised
to give the appearance of clever ad
vertising missives. Each was an
advertisment of tea, but not all of
the same brand. At the last one, I
felt a little chill settle around my
heart For it was an advertisement
of the little packets of the special
lea WUH.U x divvaa uacu, mv o..u
the face of the advertisement was
typewritten tne message:
"Perhaps this may interest you."
I pretended to scrutinize this a
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that Alice would not hear my heart
beating or my teeth chattering, both
of which things I was sure were
distinctly audible, although, of
course, the thought was only born
of a too-vivid imagination. But the
sight of the cryptic message written
across the advertisment brought be
fore me a number of other things,
each terrifying.
I think my train must have
worked for once with the rapidity
of that drowning person, for I ran
the gamut of recollection from the
day of Mijly Stockbridge's last ap
pearance at school, when she had
begged me for three of the packets
of my special tea and questioned me
as to its use, to the last message
I had received from Kenneth Stock
bridge, that message written in his
jail cell which warned me to change
my brand of tea and to pretend
ignorance of it if any , one should
ask any questions concerning it.
What w-as it Lillian had said?
"The trail of this thing lies
through that poor crazy woman's
tea pot." I felt the shadow of that
trail very near me now.
(Continued Tomorrow.)
Omaha Italian, 59,
Dies of Pneumonia;
Resident 30 Years
Joseph Minardi, 59 years old, a
resident of Omaha for 30 years, died
at his home, 1042 South Twenty
second Street, Monday morning of
pneumonia. Mr. Minardi was born
in Terini-Imirese, Italy, and came
to the United States 40 years ago.
He was a charter member of the
Omaha Italian club, an organiza
tion of Italian pioneers, and a mem
ber of the Modern Brotherhood of
America.
He is survived by his widow, five
daughters, Mrs. James Mancuso,
Mrs. Michael J. Lynch, Mrs. Sivio
Tallaricho, Miss Frances Minardi
and Miss Josephine Minardi; four
sons, Tony P., Andrew, Salvatore
and Joseph; three brothers, August,
Charles and Tony, and 20 grand
children. Funeral services will be held at
St. Anna church Friday morning
at 9. Burial will be in Holy Sepul
chre cemetery.
Municipal Hospital
A Possibility; Mayor
To Name a Committee
Mayor Smith will name a commit
tee of citizens, representing differ
ent activities, for the purpose of
studying and determining the needs,
and recommending a feasible plan
for a general municipal hospital.
City Commissioner Ringer of
fered the resolution for the com
mittee in city council today. Dr.
T. F. Edwards, health commissioner,
favors a new municipal hospital
with departments for various con
tagious diseases. The Chamber of
Commerce already has adopted a
resolutiorMfavoring the project.
1 feel splendid"
"Cascarets" act without ' Griping
or Sickening you Sox Convenient I
You wake up with your Head Clear,
Complexion Rosy, Breath and
Stomach Sweet No Biliousness,
Headache, Constipation, Indigestion.
SIOUX CITY
NEW YORK
OMAHA
LINCOLN
Announcing for
Wednesday 9 A. M.
CONANT HOTEL BUILDING
Announcing for v
Wednesday, 9 A.M9
SIXTEENTH STREET
A Tremendous Selling of High Class
!
Offered at Less Than Manufacturers Wholesale Prices
A splendidly planned sale Made possible through an
opportune purchase from four of New York's best
Dressmakers who sold us their made up stock at
Less Than the Cost of Materials Alone!
$65, 55, $45 and ?35
Values for x . " :
Over 1500
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A- I W CIV M
This Sale fe
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There will be ' Extra
Salespeople to give
you our usual Or kin
pros. prompt oervice.
DRESSES FOR EVERY OCCASION-
Beautiful Afternoon and Evening Frocks, strik
ing street models and practical styles for office
and business wear. These dresses show all the '
accepted styles in a variety beyond description.
handsome Tricolette Dresses
Smartest Taffeta Dresses
Beautiful Satin Dresses
Dainty Georgette Dresses
Lovely Crepe Meteor Dresses
Tailored Tricotine Dresses
Smart Serge Dresses
New Spring Jersey Dresses
and Combination Dresses
In Every New Spring Shade
Be Sure To Attend This Sale
, Wednesday , February 25, 9 a. m.
DRESS SECTION SECOND FLOOR. ,
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