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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 12, 1920.
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Grain Man Named
Ak-Sar-Ben King
By Jingle Writer
James Trimble Is Nominated
In Bee Contest by a
Schulyer, Neb.,
Man.
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James Trimble, a grain imh, is
jominated for king of Ak-Sar-Ben
by the winner of Friday's prize in
The Bee's Ak-Sar-Ben jingle con
test, E. W. Zerzan, Schuyler, Neb.,
who jingles as follows:
Unfit, jlntrl. merry Jlnrlt,
tt us boost for "Jlmmle" trlmble,
What a pltuur to u men
r hav htra crowned King- Ak-Sar-Ben.
AVrite a jingle about some man
or woman whom you would like to
see made king or queen of Ak-Sar-Ben.
You may win one of the grand
prues awarded at the end of the
contest, as well as the daily prize of
two tickets to the Ak-Sar-Ben car
nival shows.
These are the rules of the contest:
1. No governor of Ak-Sar-Ben
or any member of hjs family is
eligible to compete, nor any em
ploye of The Bee or his relative.
Anyone else may contribute one
or more jingles.
2. The guess must be embodied
in a jingle, either a "King's Jingle"
or a "Queen's Jingle," .It must
be written plainly andSenclosed in
an envelope addressed to the Ak-
Sar-Ben Jingle Editor of The Bee.
3. Each jingle must be on a
separate sheet of paper, the
"King's Jingle" on one and the
"Queen's Jingle" on another.
4. The author of the best jin
gle each day will receive two
tickets to Con T. Kennedy's Ak-Sar-Ben
carnival shows.
5. The person who guesses
correctly the name of the king will
receive any $10 article in any
Omaha store; the person who
guesses correctly the name of the
?iucen will receive a second order "
or $10 worth of merchandise in
any Omaha store.
6. In case two or more persons
make the same winning guesses,
tha author of the best jingle will
receive the first prize and the au
thor of the second best jingle a
aeparate $5 prize.
7. The contest will close Sep
tember 22.
Fillmoe County Fair
To Be Best in History
Geneva,. Neb., Sept. 11. (Spe
cial.) The county fair to be held at
Geneva September 15-17. will, ac
cording to Secretary S. E. Ralston,
have the best exhibits in the 45
years of its history. The manage
ment is worried about lac kof space
O Fine Arts hall and for housing of
15 blooded stock. An addition has
it-, -been made to the grandstand for
v- '" spectators, which is considered ade
quate. .
Harness races ate already well
filled and many entries made for
county and chariot races. Daily ball
games and high-wire performances
are on the program and the wrest
ling match on Wednesday and box
ing contest on Friday by local men
will be put on as a new feature of
the program.
In the evening a stock company
will put on plays under canvas on
the grounds and the fair manage
ment has arranged for a display of
fireworks.
Officers of the Fillmore County
Agricultural osasciation are Jacob
Weis, president; S. E. Ralston, sec
retary, and R. A. Lynn, treasurer.
Grand Island Minister
Serves Church 25 Years
Grand Island, Neb.. Sept. 11.
(Special.) Rev. H. Wilkins, pastor
of the German Lutheran church
here, was surprised by members of
his congregation and a delegation
from his former charge at Minden
on his completion of 25 years' serv
ice in the ministry. Eighteen pas
tors from the district, conference
were in charge of the celebration.
Rev. Mr. Brommer. president of
the Nebraska' synod,.in a brief ser
mon at the church, invoked divine
blessing. and felicitated the pastor
on his long service.
Grand Island is Rev. Mr. Wil
kins' second chrge, he having
served eight years at Minden and 17
years here, tie was presented wurr
an office desk by the congregation
-and a chair by the conference.
Mullen to Co-Operate
In Nebraska Air Derby
Mullen, Neb., Sept. 11. (Special
Telegram.) The Mullen Commer
cial club will co-operate and do all
in its power to make the first air
plane race in Nebraska, from Oma
ha to the Tristate fair at Crawford,
a success. Use of the landing field
here, which is located half way be
tween Grand Island and Crawford,
lias been offered free of charge to
the aviators contesting in .the race.
The club offered the use of the
field cither as a control stop or for
the use of aviators who may have
engine trouble: Supplies will be at
the field for any aviators entered in
the derby who signify their desire of
making a stop here.
Railway Commissioners
. Attend Chicago Hearing
Lincoln. Sept. 11. (Special.)
Railway Commissioners Taylor and
Browne have gone to Chicago to at
tend a meeting of commissioners
from 12 or 15 midwestern states,
; called for the purpose of taking con
certed action in litigation pertain
ing to 2cent fare laws. The Illi
nois law on that subject is now be
ing attacked before the Interstate
Commerce commission, which
makes a test case for all states. It
is expected: the Interstate Commis
sion will declare all 2-cent fare laws
invalid and proceed to fix the intra
' state rates itselt- or call upon the
.respective railway commissions to
act with it in doing so.
Beatrice Woman Named
Yorlc Home Supervisor
Lincoln. Sept 11. (Special.)
The State Board of Control has ap
paointed Mrs. Nellie Mumford of
Beatrice to the position of house su-
Fervisor atfthe woman's custodial
arm at Yrk. She succeeds Mrs1.
Hastings, who resigned.
Letters From Home-Made (Father to Son
BOOKS ARE ALL RIGHT IF
THEY SHOW A PROFIT.
By Ed. Streejer.
Deer Sun; ,
I got yure leter inclosin the quest
shuns you say every edicated man
ought to know. It seems to me you
yung fellos in eolege spend too much
time figgerin out when other folks
did things insted o when yure goin
to do somethin yureself. I never
could see how it was goin to get you
anywhere to know who rote Bee
thoovens1 Sonaty or where the Batel
of Waterlou was fought.
Theres always been an idear that
to be an interestin man a fello had
to be able to tell if Shakespere was
born in 1492 or if that was the year
Benjumin Franklin discovered the
kite. We had a man in Faducah
onct that was edicated along those
lines. His name was Finian Fish.
You dont remember him. He died
soons you was born. Outside o his
name an his 'adums appcl the only
tiling that stuck out of Finian was
his niemury. .He could tell how
many inches it had rained fer twen
ty years back an the weights o all
the winnin vegatabels at the County
Fare- . " :u :
He might a done'furst rate if he
hadnt fallen in the hands o a smart
book agent that sold cyclopedias.
After this fello had been workin on
him fer a coupel o weeks Finian be
gan talkin about how few peepel
was recly edicated. He allowed
there wasnt a person in town that
could talk inteligent about anything
but bisnis an not his own-at that.
Then Finian quit goin round at all.
We could see him nights sittin in
his house studyin in the cyclopedia
till the mussels o his brain stood
right out an his forhed. After a
time folks forgot all about him.
Finian Comes Back Noisily.
Bimeby he commenced droppin
round agen. He had a queer look
an there was some talk o'' his bein'
loose. He's sit cn a craker, barel
fer hours without openin' his mouth.
Then he'd say so: ?thin' like "The
Magna Carta was s -.ed in 115, or
"Winney Churchill's the. Pry MinisV
ter o Ingland
He always looked
"Lookin' for a job as a day laberer."
disappointed when he found nobody
cared.
There wasn't nothin' useless that
man didn't know. An whatever you
said reminded him o' somethin'. Like
Pooch Frisbec was remarkin' one
day on Harry Thaw, the poplar
murderer, havin' been sent to
Matawan, Finian' chimes right in an
says: '"Speakin' o' Matawan, Mata
pan is the most southermost point
in Urope." That's the way he is.
I remember one night he was sit
tin' on the stoop with me an yure
muther an Squire Freeman. Yure
muther says, "Didn't I hear it a
thunderin'?" An Finian says, "Sound
travtits 1,088 feet a second." Then
he glared over at the squire like he
dared him to contradick it.
"An that ain't all there is to it," he
says after a minit "It ojly does
that when the themomcter reads 34
degrees Fairanhigh." Then he rocks
back and forth very fierce for a
while. "An it increases, in veloci
pede one foot fer each two degrees
o' temperment," he says at last look
in' hard at the squire, like he was
thinkin' o' figtitin' him.
Now cordin' to all the book rulep
Finian had got to be one o' the most
interestin' talkers in the country.
There was one thing he hadn't
banked on. though. ' He didn't have
nobody to talk to. When he'd try
to work up some excitement about
the discuvery o' Icelandi there wasn't
no one that cared a hanp. Evtn
Pooch Frisbee, that usuly has a
comeback for everything, looked
foolish when Finian says o him,
"The arc of a circcl is ekal to pie
R square."
Bimeby tjie boys got in the habit
o' slippin'. out the back o' the store
when Finian come in the front. He
used to tell peepel how Pooch's bis
nis must be fallin' of cause you
never could find nobody in his store.
This didn't hurt Pooch none 'cause
by that time the only peepel that
Finian could get hold of to tell was
very old folks that couldn't get over
the ground fast or childrun what
didn't know any better.
It got so he spent moft o' Iiis
time tellin' his stuff to ol' Capen
Juniper' what's so deef he wouldn't
hear a fire cracker if you lit it in
his ear. 2ffobody'd bothered to talk
to the Cajpenfer years au' it flatter
ed him. ; Finian always did all the
talkin' himself so he used to fer
get the ol' man was deef. In that
way they got on right well.
All o which goes to prove that
everybody don't agree on what's in
terestin'. I'd much ravher hear
how Minton Pebbel's heiftr chocked
to deth on a straw than how some
ol' Greek poysened hisself. When
you come right down to it anout
the only interestin' things in this
World is what interests you pusson
ally,.tho I know that don't agree
with what the book fellos say.
Wanted No Share in Losses.
Byron Hames was over last week.
He's the one that has the big can
nin'vfactory over in Milford. It's
closed now. He says he's lost most
o' his muney an all his confidence
in human jiater. Byron used to have
1100 in Loot Taken From
Two Alba, Neb., Stores
Grand' Island,., Neb..' Sept. 11.
Special Telcgranr.The R. H. El
lis general merchandise store and
the Alda Specialty store of Alda,
nine miles west of here, were bur
glarised and $100 in loot obtained.
The thieves escaped i
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"Then he rocks back and forth very fierce."
a thery that a man would never
have no trubel with labef if he told
'em what was goin' on and gave 'cm
a share in the profits. He used to
go out in the factery an read 'em
the balenie sheet ebery munth. Then
he'd hand 'em all an extry check.
They'd always give him a cheer an'
every birthday a gold watch. Byron
used to write artickles fer maggu
zines about it.
Then he, began . to lose muney.
He read 'em the balance sheet just
the same but he left out the check.
After a while the men came to him
and says why hadn't they had no ex
try, pay in some time and they
wasn't goin' to be done in like that.
So they ast, Byron fer twice as much
Eay as they'd been gettin', and dub
el pay fer over time an' all the
time they worked was to be over
time. - ,
' Byron told 'em he giiessed they
hadn't paid much tenshun to the
last finanshul report. That was one
o' the few times he was right. He
offered. to get out the books an'
show 'em how he hadn't made a
nikkel fer a year.
They says they didn't care huth
in' about the books not bein' liturary
fellos. What they wanted was more
muney. ,
Then Byron says
if they'd stick
he'd run the bisnis fer a year with
out takin' a cent o pay fer it, an'
at the end o' that time they'd all
1 .1 ' 1".
aiviae tne proni.
Thev savs thev didn't want any
o' that kind o' munkey bisnis. What
they wanted was more muney.
Byron's dander was comin' up. He
says they wasn't worth what they
was eettin.' but he'd get out an'
give 'em the bisnis fer a year.iThey
could del what they liked with it
an' keep the change.
They told him not to come any o
his smart tricks on 'em but to give
'em more muney. So Byron got
mad an' shut up shop.j Now they're
suin' him in cort fer closin' his bis
nis in restraint o' laber.
He was over here in Paducah
lookin' fer. a job as a day laberer.
He says he wants to make some
muney an' at the same time get a
little rest befoie he goes back to
the job 6' runnin' his own bisnis, -
There ain't no other news cep
tin' 1 got the lumbago an' yur
mother has a touch o' rumatism. It
comes at a bad time 'cause the hired
girl's in the hospittle an' the hired
roan's sick of a fever. Outside o'
that everything's all right. Hopin'
this finds you the same, I am,
Yotirs internally,
AMOS H. AMESBY. Fath.
Campaign for City , -Beautiful
at Grand
Island Successful
Grand Island, Neb., Sept. 11.
(Special). The committee from the
Woman's club, selected by the
Chamber of Commerce as judges
in the summer campaign for a city
beautiful, this week made their deci
sions and awarded $50 in prizes.
Three classes were included in the
contest, best lawn, best flower gar
den and best vegetable garden.
Dr. E. E. Famsworth won the
first prize for the general appear
ance of his lawn as to flowers and
shrubbery, and Mrs. Charles Was
mer won the second prize.
Mrs. O. B. Olson won the first
prize for the best lawn; S. E. Camp
bell second, and Mrs. Cowell, jani
tress of a ward school, third.
Lucile Kelly won the first prize
for the best vegetable garden main
tained under school work. The in
dividual garden first prize was won
by W. r. Krause and S. E. Sinke
was second.
Chamber of Commerce officials
were astounded at the report made
of the number of vegetables raised
by the first prize winner.' On a
single city lot 74 varieties of vege
tables were harvested. The list in
cluded four kinds of beans, four of
beets, three of peas, three of lettuce,
tw of egg plant, two of leek, six of
tomatoes, two of cauliflower, two
of celery, four of carrots, 11 of
onions, two of turnips, five of cab
bage, five of radishes, two of cucum
bers, seven of berries, and one each
of parsnips, dasheen, dill, spinach,
brussel sprouts, parsley, sweet corn,
pop corn,,, rhubarb and mamitjoth
Kussian sunnower.
State Agents Busy on
Pure Food Violations
Grand Islaifl, Neb., Sept. 11.
(Special Telegram.) On complaint
of state agentsT T, A. Gottredge,
manager of tha Fairmont Creamery,
pleaded guilty to the charge that a
test of ice cream made by that com
pany showed a deficient amount of
butter fat. The; creamery alleges
that a rise of the fat in thje contain
er must have left a portion deficient
and that it was this portion that
came under observation.
A representative of the American
Eottling Works pleaded guilty to
the charge of using saccharine in
the manufacture of strawberry pop.
This is attributed by the company
to a technical defect.
A charge of selling ice cream con
taining less than 14 per cent butter
fat, against Roney & Kauffman,
confectioners, was continued, i At
the trial, the defendants alleged they
purchased their cream with the un
derstanding that it met the test.
Charges against the Harding
Ice Cream company of Omaha,
Cairo plant, for having other than
standard iweight tests and under
reading cream tests, were continued.
Increase Bank Capital.
Washington. Sept. 11. (Special
Telegram.) The comptroller of the
currency has approved the increase
of the capital of the First National
bank of Bancroft, Neb., from $30,000
to ?50,000. ,
Apeal Filed by
Street Car Men
on Wage Hearing
Exception Taken to State Rail
way Commission Ruling
That Strikes by Men
Are Unlawful.
Lincoln, Sept. 11. (Special.)
Omaha street car men have filed an
appeal in the state supreme court
from the decision of the state rail
way commission refusing to order
an increase of wages above the "Scale
of 53 to 57 cents en hour, now being
paid by the Omaha & Council Bluffs
street railway company.
The principal feature of the order
to which the men object is that hold
ing strikes unlawful as affecting pub
lic utility service. 1 tis probable that
lite American Federation of Labor
will aid in the effort to have this
ruling knocked out.
The railway commission, in the
car men's complaint, denied the rail
way employes an increase of 13
cents an hour which they claimed
was necessary to meet the increas
ing costs of necessities of life.
In the appeal, the carmen take ex
ception to the comparison made by
the commission as between wages
paid the railway employes and those
of unskilled labor in Omaha.
OXFORDS
With Military Heels
For Fall
The newest thing Ladies' Black and
Tan Oxfords for Fall. These most unuul
values in Fall footwear for womeni-fea
turing the newest toe and heel, and colera,
very durable leather, at $8.45 and up.
This large assortment is composed of smart
street, college and sport styles.
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Our upstairs location, with extremely low rent
and overhead expense, enables us to save the pur
chaser from $1.00 to $3.00 on every pair of shoes.
MODERN
" SHOE CO.
SECOND FLOOR PAXTON BLOCK
217 South 16th 16th and Famam
PIANO BUYERS, ATTENTION
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on at the warerooms of SCEMOLLER & MUELLER Piano Co.
We Are Forced to Vacate
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if you want to obtain the bargain of a lifetime.
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our Big Removal Sale, and save from $100 to $300 on the pur
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125 '
Prescott,
Famed Oak,
cent be told
from new,
Only $275
$450
Irion,
Walnut,
used a little,
- Only $278
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like new. This will go quick.
Only jg475
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undersells all competitors. -
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poor, and that they will.not wear.
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about hosiery, in a minute, than you'll ever
know. She wears PHOENIX HOSE she won't
wear any other kind. Experience has taught
her thf . folly of buying other makes.
We are PHOENIX headquarters. We carry
everything in hosiery that PHOENIX makes
PHOENIX HOSE is a specialty here. It doesn't
matter what your size may be, or the pattern or
shade that you like best PHOENIX makes it,
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Two Stores
1908 Farnam St. and
508-10 South 16th St.
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One Register
Do away with your "old" stoves. The
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installed in old hbuses.
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a welcome warmth that is uniform in
temperature, yet constantly changing
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Built For Long Service
and Constant Saving
Furnaces' differ as much as people, and we welcome a comparison of
the Roger with other pipeless furnaces. The "insides" of a furnace are
what count, and that is where the Roger excels. The castings are un
usually heavy and unusually well fitted. The inner casings around the
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lined with asbestos. Thjs all means that heat is retained longer, that radi
ation of heat is greater. It means less fuel, less attention and more com
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