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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1920)
1 v j "i THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 27, 1920. 5 A AH AH A CimJCCR MOTHER PLEADS TO SEE CHILD SHE ABANDONED humane society, Mrs. Joseph Moy lan appeared in the office of T. H. Weirich, head of the public welfare board, yesterday to ask for permis sion to visit her child. Mr. Weirich gave her an order which will admit her to the institute once each day for eight days. "I want to see my baby! Please, don't keep him away from me! I've just got to see him," the mother sobbed as she pleaded with' Mr. Weirich that she never intended to abandon her child. Baby Left With Aunt. Little Joseph Moylan. jr.. two months old, was left with his aunt, Mrs. May Belle Lamont. 634 South Twenty-eighth street, last Tuesday. When Mrs. Lamont, bride of a week, went to her work in the credit lepartment of Burgess Nash com pany, she left the baby in the care of Mrs. Myrtle Reynolds at the same address. The landlord Vjf the apartment house called police, who probed the, case and arrested Mrs. Moylan Thursday, later turning the case over to the humane society and wel fare board. Sent to Grandmother. The mother told the welfare board she had asked her sister, ilrs. Lamont, to take the child to its grandmother in Council Bluffs and that all the trouble about the child was only through a misunderstand ing. Her husband, she said, is in Lin coln seeking work. The mother told the welfare board today she had se cured employment for herself in Omaha and was promised by Mr. Weirich that the baby would be re turned to her as soon as she and her husband have established a new home and can satisfy him they in tend to care for the child properly. A California inventor has com bined a trunk carrier for automobiles with a rear bumper. SCHOOL CHUMS TO ACCOMPANY BODY OF TRUCK VICTIM Minister for Whom He Served As Altar Boy to Officiate. mate, Paul Raziske, 14 years old. 2765 Arbor street, from the home to the Immaculate Conception church for funeral services Monday at 9 a. m. I'aul died Friday afternoon from injuries received that morning when he was run over bya three-ton Orchard & Wilhelm truck at Twenty-seventh and Leavenworth streets. Father Cheoble Kalamaja, pastor, of Immaculate Conception church and for whom Paul served as an al tar boy at mass for several years, will officiate at the services. Paul changed jobs from a news boy to a Western Union messenger only a week ago. Mis anxiety to deliver a message hastily probably cost him his lif;, his bicycle skidding from under hiin a moment before the huge truck struck him. There will be no inquest, county authorities declaring the accident was unavoidable, C. Raoducki, '5079 Marimba street, driver of the truck, was ordered released from custody, Besides his parents, Paul is sur vived by four sisters, Mary, Anna, Helen and Veronica, and four broth ers. John, Edward, Stanley and Jo seph. In normal times the Transvaal mines are the largest consumers of explosives in the world. j wifiniin iiuni-L.il T M FIRST VISIT HERE IN 25 YEARS Mrs. Moylan Says Trouble Result of Misunderstanding With Her Sister. Mrs. Myer Hellman Recalls Indians, Only Street Car and Farnam Street Praises Modern Omaha. Six flower girls and six boys, members of the Tenth B class at Commerce High school, will accom pany the body of their former class Sobbing that she wanted to see her baby which has been placed in the Child Saving institute by the .0 I "Rip Van Winkle has nothing on me" gasped Mrs. Myer Hellman, pioneer settler here, as she emerged from the Union station and viewed Omaha 'for the first time in 25 years. After spending several hours viewing the city Mrs. Hellman is more than ever convinced the sur prise of Rip at changes which took place during his 20-year sleep were mild compared with her surprise at the growth of Omaha. "When I loft Omaha 25 years ago I knew everybody and everybody's horse and team. Now I would be lost if I tried to go any place." ' Mrs. Hellman came to Omaha in 1871, the 17-year-old bride of Myer Hellman, the first clothing dealer in Ornaha. Her husband brought her across the Missouri river in a flat boat, as no bridge had been built at that time. '; ' One Tiny Street Car. "There were three blocks of brick pavimr on Farnam street." related Mis. . Hellman. "and one tinv street jSSft, pulled by a mule, was the only means oi conveyance. "My husband had his store at Thirteenth' and 'Farnam streets. He had, come to Omaha in 1856. Shortly after we arrived he built a little frame cottage at Fourteenth and Jackson. -There were only a few sliantlcs there then. We then began entertaining, and although I was afraid of being lonesome at first, I found there were many lovely peo ple here." "Yes, mother was known as the most 'beautiful bride that had ever come to Nebraska." chimed in Mrs. Blanch Hellman Sachs, who, with her husband, Henry B. Sachs, of Cin cinnati and their daughter, Eugenie, accompanied Mrs. Hellman on her visit here. Many Military Balls. "You mustn't talk about that, daughter," warned Mrs. Hellman( blushing slightly. "There weren't many women in Omaha then, but most of them were very beautiful. ""There were many lovelv enter tainments in those days., "The mili tary balls at Fort Omaha were won derful, for such officers as Gen. Wil son Miles were stationed there then. "My usband built one of the first brick houses in the city at Twenty fourth and St. Marys avenue. There were no houses in that vicinity then. It was just like being on a farm. The house was one of the show places, but I used to be afraid to stay there, for the Indians kept coming around, irst Double Wedding. TThey weren't warlike, though. They only wanted to shake hands but hey tightened me. TAU : of my children were born here and when my daughters Blanch 5f.d Mabel were married at the sathit'time rif was known as the first double wedding in Nebraska." "Mrs. Hellman, who resides in BaJUmore, is enroute to Portland, 'Ore.," tovisit her daughter, Mrs. Louis! Lang. She is stopping at Hotel Fontenelle. Two Girls Injured When Three Autos V Crash at Crossing Tvo unidentified girls were slight ly tjjured at noon Friday wlen th. automobiles, one belonging to G. M Hoffman, 2106 South Fortieth streu, ' collided at Twentieth and - Howard streets. The injured were taken to the home of Mrs. John Myers, 505 South Twentieth street, and given first aid. They were able to go to their homes. . Police received no report of the accident. Witnesses say the col lision occurred when one car, going south, attempted to pass another as a third machine was coasting cast down Howard street. The license of one of the cars was Neb. 24890, a witness to the accident , declared. The number belongs to an out-of-town car. county records show. Tucson in Darkness When Engineers Go on Strike Tucson, Ariz.,. June 26. Tucson was in darkness last night and its water supply threatened as a result of the walkout of engineers of the Tucson Electric Light and Power company in sympathy with electrical Marker and linemen who struck several days ago. i Street car service is paralyzed and industrial concerns depending on electric power tied up. Water plunt superintendents declare that the wa ter, supply will not last more than a day with its electric motors shut down Crops also are threatened through thei shutting down of irrigation plants. Controversy over the open -shop caused the strike. The Bee's Fund for Free, Milk and Ice When POOR BABIES and VERY HOT WEATHER meet, something very UNPLEASANT is apt to happen UNLESS the machin ery is all set to supply those poor babies with PURE MILK and FRESH. This is what The Bee's fund pre pares to do. The Visiting Nurses, in their rounds among the city's poor, find these little waifs and draw on the fund when the family can't pay for milk. Not cent is wasted. No "over head expenses." ALL your con- ... tribution goes to supply health and ''N-Hfe to a helpless BABY. r' If you will send or bring any sum from 10 cents to $5 to The Bee of fice you can HELP in this great work. "; " PrawleiMly acknowledged $65.00 ThrM-In-On 15.00 Thomta P. 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