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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1920)
THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, SKPTEMBEK 30, 1920. i; : V. if V. I? I t I f State Counties Show Decrease In Census Figures Drift From Farm to City Be lieved to Be Cause of Population Slump In Nebraska. ' Census returns from a third of the counties of Nebraska have been an nounced by the federal government, and in half of these decreases in pop ulation are shown. Douglas county hut nf vrt hrrn rrnnrtrrt. hut it will show an increase, as the population I seven years. O'Connor's body was t t . . , .L.l!.,!! IT...! t a 01 ununi is now greater man inui.uiciu in Hastings lor iwu years i'jr of the entire, county in 1910. Lan caster county increased 16.4 per cent through the growth of the city of Lincoln. The loss in population is mainly found in rural counties surrounding Lincoln and Omaha, indicating a drift from the farms to the cities. The high price of farm land, in these regions is said to mke agriculture less profitable and stimulates the selling of farms and removal to cheaper lands. 1 The belief that mure money can be made in the city than in the country is also said to encourage the movement away from the soil. Some farmers claim that farming must be made more profitable if the drift is to be stopped. The bureau of publicity of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce has compiled the following tabic from the cenisus for 1920 as announced thus far, with a star indicating a qc- creose; Per Cant ' County. Lancaster Lincoln , , Snunrter. . Knox .... i'n , .... Holt York Snllne Pwion , . tntelnp Thiyor , . . Cumin ... Fillmore . Nemaha . Mxnn 320 ., .Sfi.DOJ ...13,42(1 .. .!0,K8 .. .18,1114 ,. .1S.0S9 ...17. HI ...17,144 ...16,(14 ...K.004 .. .16.243 .. .13,87 ...13,796 ...IS. 1171 ...12,647 ...n.ais .. .10.71 1910 Increa 73,792 10.4 48.8 1F,4 21.179 18.868 18,786 16,646 18,721 17.868 16.861 14,003 14.775 13.7S2 14,674 13,086 11.477 10,122 ,4S0 8,704 10.682 10.187 8, 8,047 8,108 8,672 6,083 5,416 3,683 3,638 2.1 2 8 8.8 10.J 8.4 7.6 ,8 8.8 6.4 .1 6.8 4.2 II 3.7 6.6 3.6 10.3 S.6 12.2 2.4 7.9 6.7 .4 10.9 11.8 43.4 23.2 Merrick Plarr , 10.61 Valley J.82J Thuraton , ,5S Pmvnea S.67S Johnson .' S.94D Nunc 8,71 Greeley ..... .... 8, (IBB Knamey 8,683 Frontier I.M0 Brown 0,749 Hitchcock 6,046 Keith 6,284 Harden 4.671 Arthur 1.412 Hall County Cities Grow; Farm Population Falls Off Grand Island, Neb., Sept. 29. (Special Telegram.) Hall county's city population ' shows a gain of 3,804 in 10 years, while the rural population shows a loss of 432. Alga village, not incorporated, is not in cluded or the relative urban . gain and rural losswould be eyen great er. The county population -shows a total of 23,733 as compared with 20,361 in 1910., '.The,, big increase is in Grand Island, but the villages of Doniphan, Wood River and' Cairo also show increases. The total city aniTtown populations is 15.689 as , , compared to 11,885 in 1910, and the urban 8,044 as compared with 8,475 'in 1910. ; T Parents of Man filled In Auto Wreck Protest Will Holding that the will of the late R. C: Martin is not valid because it is made in favor of his wife from whom he was divorced subsequent to the making of the will, his par ents, Joseph and Sarah Martin of Madison, Neb., filed a protest - in county court yesterday, asking that it be not admitted to probate. , Margin was killed in a smash-up at Twenty-sixth and Leavenworth streets last July when he drove his automobile head-on into a street car. His estate is said to be worth more ' than $150,000. . . Governor McKelvie Will Make 7 Speeches This Week Lincoln, Sept. 29. (Special.) Governor S. It. McKelvie's t ani paign tour will take him into seven different Nebraska tow'ns this week His speaking engagements are as follows: September 28, . Fillmore county rally; September 29, Gage county fair, Beatrice; September 30,!,C!ay ;, county fair, Clay Center; Nelsrn. ? ight meeting; October 1, Jefferson county fair and shop meeting; Octo ber : 2, Thayer county rally, aftr- noon; Utica, night.- j ' . Burlington Engineer Is , v Awarded $22,000 Damages Lincoln, Sept. 29. (Special.) A f personal damage verdict in favor of L Daniel Fitzpatrick, 49, Burlington !, engineer, is reduced from $28,000 to ; $22,000 by the state supreme court . leaving it one of the biggest rail !, toad damage verdicts in the history ; of Nebraska courts. Fitzpatrirk 1 was injured September 10, 1918, i when he jumbed from Burlington passenger train No. 43, westbound, just before it crashed intf a work train six miles east of AHiiWice. Supreme Court Upholds ' 10-Year Murder Sentence Lincoln,' Sept. . 29. (Special.) The 10-jjar sentence of Arlow D. Sutter, convicted of the murder of his wife, Nellie, in Lincoln two years ago, is upheld by the state supreme court in an opinion by Judge George A. Day. The high court refuses to interfere with the verdict, al though after Sutter's first trial the supreme berich; reversed the iu.lg- , vnent and remanded- the case. Supreme Court Unmoved by Omahan's Plea of Insanity Lincoln. Sept. 29. (Special.) -William Philbrick's sentence of two to 15 year in the state penitentiary for assaulting his wife with an ice pick in an elevator of the First Na tional bank building in Omaha, where she was ''conoutress, is np- held in an opinion by the supreme " court. The defense was insanity. Postmasters Appointed. Washington. D. C. 8ept. 28. (Special " Telegram.) Poatmastera appointed: Iowa Vera N. Patterson, Cylinder, Palo Alto, Ethel Davidson, vice Carrie H. Empty, re signed: Mount Zlnn, Vanburen, Clay H. 1111. vice Joseph H. Wiley, realigned; Ret p Field, Mtkroe, Carmen Sims, new office; ''Sully. JaSher. Charlie H. Swisher, vice 3 Jncob C. Coleman, resigned. ' Nebraska Lushton, York. William P. Ccekus, vtcn Howard P. Cssrlsa. resigned; , Pauline, Adama, Elijah H. Aril en. v Carl K. ilcClcery, resign' Purported WilKof Rich Hastings Man Held toberorgery Lincoln, Sept. 29. (Special.) The Nebraska supreme court, in sn cpinion by Judge Rose, holds that the purported will of John O'Con nor, Hastings recluse, whose estate is worth over $1U0,UU0, is a forgery and that "the judgment of the dis trict court sustaining the will is clearly wrong.1' The will left the property to a brother Charles, "it" he be living otherwise to an or phanage in Nebraska ouside of Lin coln or Omaha." Chief Justice Mor rissey dissents from the pajority finding of the high bench. The O'Connor estate case has hctn in the courts of Nebraska for purposes of identification. Between 50 and 60 alleged heirs appeared and many of them identified the body as :hat of their father, uncle or brother. Several purported wills figure in the case. f Three Mexicans Held At Oxford on Charge Of Killing Comrade Beaver City, Neb., Sept. 29. (Special Telegram.) Three Mexican section hands were arrested at Ox ford by Sheriff Collins and held for investigation. A fourth Mexican has been missing for several days and it i$ charged he was murdered and his body secreted along the Re publican river. ! One of the arrested men' admUs the shooting, but claims that it was done in defense of his sister from an i assault. The girl says that her brother shot the Mexican and car ried the body on his back to the river east of Oxford. A posse searched the region carefully, but did not locate the body. The Mexicans refuse to disclose further information as to the where abouts 'of the missing man or the disposition of the body. The man had over $60 due him from the Bur lington railroad. State Socialists to, Have Place on Ballot Lincoln, Sept. 29. (Special.) On the strength of an affidavit by two Omaha men that a mass meeting was held August 25, in that city, at tended by 1,000 persons, and the socialist party organized in the man ner required by Nebraska law. Sec retary of State Amsberry will give that party a place on the official ballot at the fall election. The certificate received by Mr. Amsberry is signed bv Georsre T. Bastedo, chairman, and William Mchrens, secretary of the mass meet ing. It states that Debs and Sted- man were endorsed for president and vice president. Hebron Women Get 500 Members in Harding Club Hebron. Neb., Sept. 29. (Special.) An cnthusisastic meeting of re publican voters was held in the court house here. J. T. McCastion delivered an address on the issues of the campaign, after which a Hard ing and Coolidge club was organized. lhe following officers were elected: C. Collins, president; Mrs. R. A. Hensell, first vice president; . C. Biesner, second vice president; H. P. Harding, secretary; W. W. Wright,' treasurer. Executive com mittee: Mrs. H. P. Harding. W. R. Hall, Mrs. F. W. Hohense, George Clark, Mrs. I. C. Gray. W. B. Shirley. Mrs. Franki Lawless and W. E. Boyes. 1 , The women workers obtained a list of nearly 500 members in two days. Hold Military Funeral For Overseas Soldier Stanton, Neb., Sept. 29. (Special.) Draped with the colors, of the country for which he died, the b,ody of Lieut. Waldo Schillington, who was killcdeat St. Jean DeMonths in France, December 6, 1918, while in the aviation service with the Ameri can expeditionary forces, was laid to rest with all military honors in charge of the local American Legion post, Monday afternoon at Stanton, The funeral service was held at the Methodist church, the Rev. W. Saunders officiating. ( Porter Charged With Theft Sentenced to State Prison Sidney, Neb., Sept. 29. (Special Telegram). Bert Davis. ne,-?ro porter charged with stealing $117 from a passenger on a Union Pacific train on the night of September 17, pieaded guilty todaV in district cour: to grand larceny. He was sentenced by Judge H. M. Grimes to the peni tentiary to serve from one to seven years. Detective Plymcll states that Davis confessed to several other thefts and hat goods were found in his home at Omaha. Adams Store Robbed. BeatriceNeb., Sept. 29. (Spe cial Telegram.) Thieves entered the feneral merchandise store of the outelot Barker company at Adams and carried off merchandise valued at $1,200. They also rifled the cash register of $2150. MOTHEtfsFhlEN Afxpedant Mome ADSOlUteljr, SskU ImUs tm Ht, mi lass. Na gMPfglP SfGULATOa CO. DOT t-O. ATlT c For aagss? JSC Safe qv A 411 0r(('t's II ll Omahan Named New President of Unitarians Next Conference for Iowa and Nebraska to Be Held In Des Moines; Sessions - Close Here. William F. Baxter of Omaha was elected president of the Nebraska Iowa Unitarian association at its elosintr session of the 43d annual conference here yesterday. Mrs. Sadie H. Passij of Humboldt, la., was elected vice president and Mrs. G. W Heller and Rev. F. C. Doan of Iowa City were chosen trustees. Officers are elected for a two-year term. ' Those in office whose terms have not yet expired include Rev. Charles E. Snyder of Sioux City, secretary; Henry H. Griffiths of Des Moines, treasurer; Dr. S. B. Hos- kins, Sioux City; Kev; . a .heav ens, Omaha; Mrs. Mary Emsley Adams. Mason Citv. directors. The closing address of the con ference was made by tne Kev. urus W. Reese of Chicago, on the liberal movement in the middle west. "Out of the liberal movement put in motion by the Unitarians," de clared Dr.' Reese, "will come the religion of the new day. The im mensity of the task is staggering even to the most stealous." Statiticians are checking up on the work of churches, he continued, many questions are being pressed for an answer, which under the .pres ent circumstances, with ' men pos sessing such lukewarm affiliations with churches, and some none at all, are very hard to answer. Following Dr. Reese's address, Rev. Eleanor E. Gordon, Hamilton. 111., rendered a report of the special committee on history, in which she gave a brief resume of the activi ties of the Unitarian denomination for the past 100 years. The next conference will be held some ime in the fall of 1921 in Des Moines, la. Large Crowd Attends Gage ' County Fair at Beatrice Beatrice, Neb., Sept. 29. A crowd estimate at 7,000 attended the open ing day of the county fair here. The exhibit of purebred live Stock, poultry, farm implements, etc., is the best in the history of the fair association, which is under the man agement of the Gage County Farm bureau ttiis year. ' 4 . 1 rot Montana Wool Grower Urges Enactment of Truth-in-Fabric Bill J. B, Harcourt; Montana wor.l Crowcii visited the stock y.irdg to fftirther a catmi.iif.il bem? launched in the middle western and Rocky mountain states in favor of the French-Capper truth-in-fabrics bill, oendinar in both houses of tongress. If enacted the liw will compel manufacturers to -brand all fabrics and thus prevent the use of ".h ddy" in garments which are sold as real wool. "It is vitally important to the vfc industry of A'i'ern states thnt the French Capper hi) be pas-.Vl," Mr. Marconi: said. 'Lmaha uaoiti ot the r":''Hipal 'v'.es whicii should benefit greatly by ine wool industi anc'. now is the time for Omahans to actively support the fight for protec tion. ' "I liat ma.;-: 9 tour o: western sta'cs as far as the Pacifu coast ard r.;.vu foun ! a most mimmoi'S cntinu-nt in favor of Senator Hard- ir.a for president. I ha"i tilked with scores of old-time democrats in Montana, Colorado, Utah and other Mates and thev ;'e all bo-o-it lor Han Mig and . t rftion . of a rc- ;ub!i;,an congress." State Demurrage Law Is Held Unconstitutional Lincoln, Sept, 29. (Special.) The Nebraska supreme court for the second tnr.e has declared the reciprocal demurrage law of . the 19U legislatu'e unconstitutional. The law allows shippers to recover a penalty of $1 a day on cars un necessarily delayed in transit. lhe second decision of the hi5?h ccurt on this law is in ,the case of Sutherland Brothers of Omaha cgainst the Burlington road. One of the reasons Riven for hold ing the law invalid 'was that it pro vides for both actual damages and a fxed penalty. Judge C. B. Letton, in dissenting, says no statute hould be declared void if a reason ble construction will make it valid." : Octogenarian Dies. Hans Bote!, 83, inmate of the Douglas county hospital, died, yes terday. Death was due to the in firmities of old age, hospital au thorities say. A brother, John Bo tej, 5629 South Eighteenth street, claimed the bodyl Funeral services will be held at 2 tomorrpw after noon Burial will be in West Lawn cemetery. Reasons Why Now Is , To Sell $6$,000 Worth of Men's Clothing for $45,500 A .Reduction of 30. on Entire Stock of Men's and Young Men's Suits, Top Goats, Overcoats, Suede Coats, Trousers Reason 1 y ' September the big month in retail Men's "Clothing. , ' . business wasi too warm for the public to think of buying Fall and Winter Clothing. Reason j!.icuuous rumors oi prices coming aown nave neia many back in their buying. Reason 3 . Cold w eatlier is now Here and at this sweeping, profit cutting sale we Will make up in volume what we lose in profit. Reason 4 You men of Omaha and Vicinity need heavier clothing now. this Sale Starts Thursday-9 A. M. Hundreds of men are waiting for an event like this so the earlier you are here the easier your selection. Our-Men's Clothing is tailored oy Stein-Block and Sam Peck the uncqualcd style leaders for America's well-dressed men and young men. -. We know, you know, everybody knows there arc no finer suits made no better tailoring no smarter styles no richer fabrics no more compelling clothing values in this city today than this sale offers to you. All sizes for all types in all the smartest models. Mystic Workers ; Re-Elect Smith Supreme Master Result of Ballot for Supreme Conductor to Be Announced Today Peoria Gets Next Convention. ' D. E. Smith was re-elected su preme master of the Mystic Workers of the World yesterday afternoon at ,Masonic temple, where the order is holding its biennial convention. Other officers chosen were su preme secretary, Leo tC. Carroll, Illinois; supreme baulcer, Al F. Schoch, Illinois; general attorney, Chas. E. Sturtz, Illinois; supreme editor, Robert Toole, Illinois; Gomes already sweetened , Its own sugar is developed in the baking. It solves your sugar prob lem among ready-to-eat cereals, e Order package from the grocer. Its flavor appeals and there is no waste.- Made by Pbstum Cereal CoJncBattie CreeitMich. Safe TfflUt forlHFAWS & INVALIDS SST,7&!?,I,C?,,d?nd0row,0c,'IM, I ThoOriglnalFood-DrinkForAHAgea Eldredge 2 - 4 - supreme sentinel, Mary Lofgren, Iowa; supreme picket, Frances B Clendeneu, Illinois. The results of the balloting on supreme conductor and two su preme directors will be announced today. An extra ballot was neces sary on these offices, majorities being required to determine the winner. Peoria won the orivileKe of en tertaining the next convention by the narrow margin ot one vote, defeat ing its nearest rival, Minneapolis, 220 to 219. Milwaukee ran third, The announcement of the winner caused a prolonged demonstration by the Peoria boosters. The delegates frolicked at a bal given for them at the Masonic auditorium last night. The convention will adjourn this aiternoon. , , Sentenced for Forgery. Beatrice, Neb., Sept. 29. (Spe cial.) Henry Foster, 17, was sen tenced to 30 days in the county jail cn a charge of forgery by Judge McCandless at Wymore. - Nufcs: ASK FOR llorlick's Hie Original Avoid Imitations WehMDk. Malted OralnBxtraet In Powder No Cooldnr-Ncmrithinir-DutectiJbU the Psychological Time Reynolds Co0 The average man who purchases 'ffwE a. W - ' La agg 4, "jjuniap not jot its auttnetton ft&K and quality has a complete under' npt SjRji standing of the service which is sF$Hfj G$gf part and parcel of our selling. jcRfp &fijn Those who haven't experienced the : tfBg ftgjj cordial treatment and interest we 3?5j 1 4Q& gire, will find splendid satisfaction fcf81 in coming in to see the Fall models.. frbiP f4Qf Tha Phoenix Hoie ' ' SWft USE BEE WANT ADS THEY BRING RESULTS i 4 :.i.UVw'.5i.