Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1909, Page 5

\ peated. The holy A THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 26, 19 AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA Children Pight We, Through Snow to Christmas Services. SAWYIR CACUGHLI IN ST. JOE Police Believe Man Whe Shot Geme iz Has Been Taken in ¥ Costedy—finny Hezs in Market Mren, and parents weil bk beavy Enow blockade Frid in Soyth Omaka to atiend one or ant of the Sumerous public gbservances Christmas eve. Most of these functiont were conducted by the several churches The Sunday school children were giver their annual tret and their annual glimps* inle the mysterfes of Santa Claus. Al Lefler Memorial church the children had an especially bard battle with the drifis £eiting 1o the church. The streets were piled high about the church, where ihe | wind sweeps the smow into the sheltersd spots. The English Lutheran church celebrated Jast evening. where about half the regular attendance of the Sunday sehool was pres- | church celebrated last even- of the most pleasant pro- prepared by the young people The tree and the gifts were unusually fine St Clement's mission held ite special Christmas program Thursdsy evening The First Methodist program was enm- | Joyed by a large number of the friends as well as the school ehildren. The Fi Presbytefian congregation, not hiving a | chureh, home omitted the program. | St Dadwards’ Christmas carcls and m‘ gram will be given st 4 p. m. today. Special Music A speciai musical fered at 3 a m today st Bt ehgrct. The musical nmumbers eonsiet of | E ne as follows: “Oh, Come Al Ye | “Behold 1 Bring You Good Tid- | ingr,”" “Ksrie.” by Dorey; “Gloria Tibi” | Dorey: Brooks; “Sing, O Heavens” “Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem ™ Clements. “Servisum Coréa™ Dorey; Deorey; “Benedictus,” Derey; “. Dotey ‘0, Saving Vietim ™ “Glests iu Bxcelsia, Nane T i Royal David's City.” Hely communion | will be celebraied al § and 10 o'clock, Rev. A. G. White will officiate. Bunday the Christmas music will be re- communion will aiso be celebrated Junday st 6 2. m. Sunday, after Christmas at St Clement's chureh the Sunday school will convens | ot 3 a m This will be foillowed by the morning prayer and litany. W. E Cullen will preach the sermon The feast of St | Stephen will be ceiebrated and St. John, the Evangelist will he observed Tuesdny. | St. Baward's misvion will hold se-vioes | Sunday at 4 p. m | “God's Crestest Gift” i Rev. George | Van Winkle's topie at the Baptist| { |bolida) s at the Fiec . lafter & several News and Gossip from Suburbs of Omaha What the Neighbors Are Doing and What They Propose to Do Entertainingly Set Down by the Chroniclers for the Edification of Others Who Are Interested in the Doings of Their Fellows. Bellevme. Mr. and Mrs William Nicholl of Hastings have been enjoying their holiday vecation visiting at the Wright home. Mr. Claybaugh eujoyed & visit from b brotisr last week Leigh Ohman ‘% spest & few dars on the hill this week Glenn Pice reogved a wisit brother from Colcrade Sunday The Fontanel e hail girls enjoyed a sleigh ride last Thureday evening Mrs J. F. Mcleahos and son, Jack. spen Monday at lne bome of Mra R N. 4 Hayen Fier under the doctor's care at present Mr. and Mre J. D. McChesney took in the Mexican BANG conceri &1 the Lorn snow s satureay. The Kaoyal Neighbors heid their annual eleciion of officers iasi Friaay nighi, afte which refreshmenis were served Miss Heriha Miliner and Helen Fletohe: bave lsrued Wvilalions 107 & Lancy aress Party 1o be given ai the Chapman home aew Years , 16 the Caristy fundeavors ana proepeciive members, Jenet Mitchell has been suffering with a5 attack of bromohius. Miss Susie Cook and Mra Wieler were visiting ai the Martin bome Sunday William Lynch of South Omang Sunday Ginner ai the J. ¥. McManon home Mrs. J. C. MoChesney and children a Spenaing he LoUGEYS AL e M bome a. Hed Osx, la Mrs. B N. Towl and Mite daugtie: have returned from a vist with resuves in liinois Fieiding Clarke is bere from Wentworth cmle . Lexington, 0 spend the bo.aays. James McBain and daughter of Toge, Sesk., Canada, are spenaing U s home. _PresiGent Suookey fiiled the pulpit at i Prestyierian church Sundey moiBing from 0., gave &n inieresung alk on Sellevue coliege matiers A Christmas caniats was given at Presbyierian church Friday evening by Sunday_scnool ren ana ine school cb dren. The enterialument Was very inter- esling and well aitended. Mrs. Charles Mciiuiey ®ick ihis week. Art Wright s bere from South Dakota spending ine holicays at the nome of his faiber. A. C. Sloan is able 1o be around again weeks' Jliness. Miss Mable Spanion, who i Asuton, is here spemding ine boidays Miss Marie Reed of La Platte was a Suest a1 Lne Prodasco heme sl Saturoay Conductor Childs is enjoying a three Weeks VACAtion ana has gone 1o his o bome at Nies, Mich. Mrs. Fannie Olbey has been attending revival meetings at Council Biuffs the jast three weeks. Mrs. J. Hinson and two chidren went to Omala last Thursday to call on Mrs New Who is very sick. o N The cotiage oocupied by Mr. ‘snd Mrs Cringel, jusi acyost from tae J. G. Gos: residence” was burned Wednesdey mnigi. The property was not covered by imnsur ance. Mrs. E J. Stunard, who for has been visiung her sister, Mrs. Wesiey Chadd, eft last week for Waterloo, I the has been very some time teaching at | ing the honor guest most every duy | The Misses Frances and entertained a arge party of their friemds Christmas evening st their home | Clavse the young son of Mr. and Mra | Chiaries Eibourn, has the chicken pox. The cold weather caused one of the radia- ole’s hall to break Monday. The had been turned off. dut not some function al ce Thompson Wiillams s suffering with e on his hand Florence i the terminus of man and sieighing parties from Omaha these days, most of them visiting the pumplug house and warming up before returning t Omaba. Henry Anderson, Robert Golding and ¥ H. Rernoids scted as arbitrutors in the ditpute of the partnership of G. Manein and Bmil Hanson on the sidewalk ©o Tact They unable to srrive af satisfactory on of the trouble, ho ever. The & car- Bt Fleasant Hour club h inv e for thel be season, which they i vest ever given by the club. The county commissioners have reported in favor of cpening & road on the west imits of Florence, commencing at strest and west city limita, ruaning sout W feet. themoe west OB feei 1o Juthwes corner of the © ? the southeast quarter aims for damage have to ary 2 The Pleasant Hour club has issved in- vitations for & dsnce to be given &t Cole's bail the first part of January Mr. and Mrs F. H. Revnolds we gueis of Mr. and Mre. Paul Haskel Cay for dinner Lucien Thom; Usiversity of N | Rolidays as H. Thomp: out be 1t on, who ka., be gFuest and fami has been busy ing e Omaha i€ attending is_spending is brother. the th of w all the week chickens f next as be did last, when he w ribbon in almost every €lass be entered. Mr. Coupal spent Monday i Jay Ritchie is home for the holidas Mr. and Mre. F. H Reynolds were | | the day The Ponca Ladies’ Aid society gave & 16-ehort social Friday evening at the kle, who has b nis daughten, Mrs. Frod Ha | Mongay for i home in Hun | _Mr Schmeero, a Japanese student from | Bellevue coliege, supplied the Ponca Pres- byterian church last Sundsy The Ponca Presbyieris give its Christmas entertainment burch Monday esening Miss Hildur Erickson of Feirview I spending the week in Florence. Thirtie Brothers have purchased tght-horse power gasoline engine to We work on thelr farm north of town. Harn Ritchie of Stratton, Neb., is visit- ng his brother. City Engineer Rpeypolds presented his resignation &s city engineer to the goun- cfl Monday evening Apd@ it was scoepted he council will appoint J. P. Crick to church will st the an do week. ' guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hartman Bun- | Wl: oining. Mr irkendall will bu | =piendid sannucr home. P. H Petersen, who has been working for Hane Peterson for the last year, re- signed his position Wednesday. He ex devote his entire time on the ovement club will ernoon &t Ponca I & meeting Weds o'clock a1 the Ponca school bouse A rep- resentative of the telepbone company will be present to tell of the workings of the sysiem and bow the farmers can gel bet- ter service. The club is discussing th paving of the ioop rosd. and in order ic get the best possible material they have taken the matier up with the government engineers club is_ also spondence w versity of Nebraska as t ods of maintaining rosds. 1t is their sire 10 have the finest roads of the county Dundee. Miss Nell Hail of who has been the guest for several months of her sunt Mre G. W. Wickersham, returned bome United States Marshal W. P. Warner | has returned from an official trip to Sioux Falls, & D. and Mre J. W. Veck spent’Christ- in Chicago and will vieit iy and other eastern poinis before returning bome George gave an afternoon tea T 2y at her home in honor of Miss Faith Potter. n honor of ber mother, Mrs. George A , Mrs J. E. Sumers, jr., gave on last Saturday, when she opened sme st 3% Deéwey avenue. The goests at Juncheon were restricted io the futimate friemds of Mrs Hoagland, but in the afternouti 8 tea from 4 to 6 which was in the nature of & house warming, in- cluded & larger cirele of &oquAiniABCes. rs. Eilick of Fremont is visiting her sone, A. G. Ellick and Francis Ellick, over he holidays R Rush returned the latter part of the week from & trip to Washington, D. C Frank and Wayne Selby entertained the members of the High school Les Hiboux | clud at their home Wednesday evening Mr. and Mrs. H G. MoCart to New York o spend the holidays. The Dundee Sunday school heid its an- | nual entertainment Christmas eve at the | Dungee hanl. A piay entitied “The Trial of | Sunta Ciaus ™ & farce, was given, and \u‘bn & program of sougs and speeches by the Sunday school puplle Dundee Woman's_club will meet Jsuuary § with Mrs. 3. W. Marshell Dr. and Mrs H B. Lemers entertained imner Christmas eve ir s Joseph Poicar and Dr. Walker and son. & ed during the week from Knoxviile coliege, Iilinois, to | the hondavs with his mother, Mrs. J. J. | Lampe sne Dr. Lampe. Irvingto: Mise lda Chspman wecks &t the home of her parents 68 Cronk's sister spent & few days at ngton, where Miss Cromk is teach {1n » son_spent home. T The lrvis on school gave & Program ai box supper at the M. W. A hai Fridar Friday evening &t the Hazard i New | have gone | is spending a few | isees Minnie and Mattie Staden of Ben- | \HOLIDAY OF THE OLD TYPE | —_— [Not in Years Has Omaha Had So | Much Smow at Yaletide. CAR LINES BLOCKED SHORT TIME Pedestrians Plunge Through Drifts | o Get te Entertainments and { Shoppers Have High Old Time. hold | Plenty of spow characteriped Christmas in Omaha this year It @id mot come with the bluster of the usual Nebrasks storm, with swirls and ed- Gies. liftung pedestrians off their ‘feet, de- positing hats and bundies in Geep drifts But gently as the Nuffy flakes you read about In anclent tales, it was wafted from the clouds, settling on every prajection softly as if with fairy touch 014 Santa himeelf, when he came to Ne- |braska and prepared for the usual scrape of his runners over rough dirt roads paused and peered over the white expanse with wonder. He could giide over the plaine on tap of a dest of fluffy erystals &1 the very Jeast estimate “DId you ever!” he exclaimed and be made at least an hour through the thought- fulness of Jack Frost Shoppers found the smow not quite mo |useful as @id Samta. 1t was a different proposition to : for & car with a ton { Christmas joy attached in the form of numerous and sunéry parcels, and then land in & snowdrift knee deep. It was quite another & 10 bave to wade In ‘hem for long streiches when the cars them- selves stuck in the bemutiful drifia But the storm did not persist In full severity through the night and by 12 ¢'clock the big track sweepers had conguered it on the main carlines and beyond minor de- laye there was Dothing but incomvenlence o complain of. Bome Mving at Benson and other faraway places who postponed their buring might mnot agree with this but cthers on the better traveled limes found Litve aifficult; Sweepers cieared the lines at § o'clock |thie morning for the early Chrispmas &ay cars which went out on Sunday time. The lovely snow! | But Oh you kid, what if it had been | windy! Westher predictions are fair and colder Tiesp in Lizcsia. | LINCOLN. Dec %—Street car traffic was |tied up in Lincoln Friday as a result of the drifting of the heavy snow which fell throughout the day. Passenger trains om the ralroads are without exception behind time. The wind rose in the evening and {te semperature i falling. | Six tmches at Beatrice. BEATRICE, Neb., Dec. % —(Special Tele- gram )—The heaviest snowstorm of the season visited this section Friday. The storm has been raging ail day and the ground is covered with snow 10 the depth of six inches. It snowed hard Quring the night. et ?Savidgc Feeds ‘ Hungry Men point to another. On very many occasions 1 noted this pecullarity when traveling with them. Often when they told me & place we were bound for wasa very close at hasd, it developed that we were far from It This I something they are Dever sure of and cannot indicate The Eskimos have & white man “stung to death” from every point of vlew. They not only can go to sleep prompily, but sleep soundly and well as they travel, when circumstances permit. They get suste nance, 100, by eating hard frosen walrus and seal meat of blubber. This I could never 4o, for it i so strong in flavor that it invariably nauseated me, though 1 &4 tucoeed very well with raw hare or deer's meat when I had it —Harry Whitney in The Outing. i Five Hundred Attend Dimner at | America Distribute Christmas Sumptaously. | Five hunared INETY people were fed by }R'v Charles W. Savidge at the People's church yesterday, & large sumber of wick lI'!“‘ tared for by baskets sent out and | everybody at the House of Hope was| supmisously fed and weil cared for. { From 1I% until § o'clock yesterflay & siring of men and women stood in line and walted their turn in the basement of the Peopie's church te get some of the templing viands, which had been prepared by Mr. Savidge and his co-workers. Every | PHilp W. MacDonsid 3 vears of age @led Thurras; aight at his bome 178 |man, woman and child was given ail he| |could eat and all wemt awsy happler. | South Twenty-sixih street. of a complica- | The dinner was somewhat different)tion of discasss. He i survived by his |from the Thanksgiving dinmer that Mr |fatber, Alex MacDonaid a brother. John Savidge gave at the People's church. |MocDonald. and's sister, Miss Lillian Mac- Then the guests were given tutkey and Donaid. The young man has been om- chicken and 136 were fed., Yesterday the |Ploved as a bookkeeper for Paxton & Sacking hedses oF B Omana fur- |Gallagber. The funersl will be beid Sun- nished meat, which included roast beef |88y afterncon from the residence at 1 POork butts and ham, and there was plenty |0 Cock. with interment in Forest Lawn |and more for the 560 who appeared. The |Ctmetery. | meat was cookod at the Merchants, Rome, Henshaw and Puxton and huge platters were placed before the guests, and there was no limit plscen on the amount & man soould eat. Doc Breed sent five bushels of potatoes, Lig Lunches of celery and 100 loa.es of tread Rome Miller sent some nous baked beens MNra J. B Kitchen sent a large box of selected Jel- lies of different kinds Other dishes in sbundance were prepared At the House of Hope last evening a | Christmas tree was prepared for the ben- efit of the 0ld folks, for on the tree was & gift or more for each. A musical and |lterary entertainment followed the light- ing *’ the tree Norfolk Has ‘ Factory to Give| EATH RECORD. Phillp W. MacDomald. B Preumonia always resutzs from & coM s5d can be prevented by the timely use of Chamberiain's Cough Remefly. Not Satisfied! We are never quite satisfied with the work dome by us (al- though our customers seem to be, judging by the way they stay with us from year to year), we are always on the alert for new methods and machinery whereby we can better our service. We mean to continne as Omaha's largest and most pro- gressive clesning and dying es- tablishment, and we invite Sugar Plant Free to Firm that Will | | Employ Fifty Men for Twenty- i Five Years. . | NORFOLK. Neb. Dec. $.—Bpecial)—Any person or person who will insiail & factery in the ©id wugar faciory buildings at Nor- | these who want careful and conscientious folk, empioying fifty peopie the year| work to try us. around or M0 people six months in the | Ladies' Taflor Suits dry year, and operste ihe plant for twenu- |l cleamed $1.75 to $2.25; lace five years, will be given & clear deed to |l and silk waists, 75 cents; opera |the bulldings and twenty acres of ground. | fll robes, $2 to $2.50. | Such a person can have that property Wagons everywhere, but only ome office. free of rent right mow. For the first time The Pantorium since the American Beet Sugar company removed its factory frem Norfolk to Lamar, Colo., five years ago, the Norfolk la- dustrial company, composed of the Norfolk pecple who contributed the FiS0M0 o get | the faciory 10 come bere twenty years | church, funday rorning. A missienagyy program will be given in the evening. “Good (leaners and Dyers™ 1518 JONES STREET “Slick™ at Awburn. AUBURN, Neb., Dec. 5 -—Specital)—A | She will spend ithe holidays with her sons |ibere and them return to her home at Ed- fil] the vacancy ai the next meeting. Charles Frost was the guest of L R vening, December 1I. The proceeds from bhe box social were over $I. ago, are in & position 1o receive proposi- | Dr. Wheeier will hold & Christmas ser- | wvice 81 the George N. Brewer chapel om | Christmss morning at 1 o'clock. Topic, “The Desper Meaning of Christmas™ An otfering for the poor and sick will be taken | for the Masonie fund. Ne special music | No anthems, coly church hymus asd a short talk by Dr. Wheeier. The public is corgtally invited. At Rushting's hall, the Presbyterians will | have specis) Christmas music on next Sab- Bath, both morning and evening services. Dr. Wheeler will ‘preach. Evening topie | will be “Chrisumas apd Childhood.” | Bets family, Ayvile, la Mus. Priscilla Grahem left Tuesday to spend the holidays with her granddaugh- ter, Miss Heler Watts of North Prairie avenue, Chicago. Before returning to Ne- Lraska she expects 1o spend 2 part of her tme with her son in Pennsy vania Last Friday night Prof. and Mrs. Caider en- tertained &t dimmer in her homor, Stovkey and Miss Graham and friends from Omata. Sunday morning about 1230 a fire was Giscovered in the J. 8. Bets home. The fire wae discovered by members of the Dr who reside in the sam block. By the time they were able to Teach the burning building the fire was be- ond control and with some difficulty J. Dr.jof 3 €] Mr. and Mre Jacob Weber and Mr. and | Griffith at_ Msndy Lee Poultry farm Christmas for dinner. { Mr ang Mre Emil Weber | Neb, are the guests of Mr Jocob Weber. 3t Frank A Glenson has sssumed the man- |agership of the Minae-Lusa Lumber | company made vacant by the resigmation A Scott, who will o on the road |for “tne” Walrain-Sherwood Lumber com- |yany the fir, of the year. { 13an church Sunday school at the Mrs Jennie Magee has returned to her of Warne, | place. and Mrs Miss Beth Kratz spent Sunday with Miss Cisra Hendrickson. is ise Cora Richards spent a few dare u: week ot the home of Mrs. S A Bates Mr. and Mre W. C. Ness gpent Sunday at the home of her parents, and Mrs. E. E. Richanis. The Misses Opal and Stella Adkine and Miss Mary French spefit a few days with their aunt, Mrs. S. A Bates Mr. H. F. Knudsen, Harry Kaudsen. Mr. John Hendrickson, Miss Clars Hew drickson and Miss Beih Kratz spent Sun- dsy afierncon at Debolt. r. be 3o Iheid {helr Clristnas exercises chuich Thuredsv evening. | Mis. Weber were the guesis of Mr, and Mrs 3. J Cole tupday home with her son, Frank Magee of this| blanket of snow for Christmas is on the ground here. It began spowing Thursday nd continues to fall tonight The snow lies about six inches Geep. The previous |snow hae become packed and joed, #nd the | present snow being light and hiding the smooth pieces, makes travellng very dan- gerous. No one has been seriously hur: During the last week & series of mccidents occurred on mccount of the slick condition of the streets and sidewalks in town Kight persons have fallen and been severely hurt, |two receiving broken arms, one a brokem tions looking toward reutiizing the ol | tactory duildings. The title to the property | has just been turned over to the lndustrial | |ccmpany and officers of the company au- thorige the effer as made above The property altogether includes 30 acres of land, worth probably from §IS0 1o 3N an acre. After giving away twenty acres of this land to the man who will start something in those abandoned factory bulldings, the Indusirial company would | Tetain 2 scres of the land apd they are | suxious 10 give away the building and twenty scres of land, in order to increase | 50 Extra B Trading Stamps Sleighing im Order. {the value ‘of the balance of the land and | With each ton ordered Monday. HUMBOLDT, Neb., Dec. %5 —(Special)— |58 by seliing it off “recover what portion | 1 Betz and his sister, Miss Lizel ;| Mrs Jonn Kimoall and daushter. Dor- . S 5 1 d : Think Sawyer Caught. Wee Tescusl fem it SEmtiag Taie b |othy, were the guesis of Mra. ¥. B | Mr and Mrx 3 Hendrickson will We carry a large stock— The South Omaba polive department was | informed by wire yesterday that the St | Joseph suthorities heve made the arrasm | of William Sawyer, wanted in South Omaha for shooting Geme Williams Thurs- | @xy eveplng The South Omaha suthori- ties have sent Jdefinite descriptions, with in| {ren ocut vecemtis® | one of the oldest buildings in Believue, |Nichole Christmas. having been erected in 1866 and having been | The Modern Woodman lodze of Florence oocupied contlnvousy by Mr Bets since|wili move into Pascale’s hall the first of 3, 1t was of granite construction and soe | the sear a ® verers andmarks in this vicin- | . Miss Ella Boone, daughter of W. H & ity in early days This is an entire 10 |;ime and Rusmus Pederson. were mar- to Mr. Betz, a8 the infurance which bel (00" SO a0t Ve “the Rev. Charles hud been carrying for Lfty vears had just | goC NV (R 00 in Omana. They ere uccompanied by Dr. and Mre C. A the iGm of making sure before an officer is dlspatebed 1o bring Sawyer back. | Wililams shows no change in condition #ince he recovercd from the immediate shoek | of the operation, but Do hope is expressed | for his recovery. It requires three or four @ays ueually for septic poisoning to develop sufficlently to be fatal Blockade of Snow Well Timed. Fortunately for the South Omaha mar- | ket, the beavy snow of Friday merged in the holiday season, when Do lock is ex- pected. The receipts yesterduy morning were not affected. for the snow arrived 100 | Jate. Over L.0W hogs were received, which s counted 2 good many for the day before Chrisimas. The receipts of cattie were only 88 and the sheep very small The hog prices again took & ueclded Jump from the fall of the last few days. Twenty to % cents a@vance was noted on some clusses. | The bulk was about 30 cents higher than Thureday. The yards will be practically empty today and there will be no market \ Magic City Gossip. Jetter's Goid Top Beer elivered to any part of the city one No. & The Young Men's Christiad association . wishes lis members wnd friends & meny Christmas Mr. and Mrs Stusrt Campbell and daugh- ter will visit their paronts in South Omaba over Sunday. . Car! Braastend received the gold cross offered by St Martin's_church for the boy who whatied the mosi ndvancement Secretary Fred Meits and his estimable wife have moved inio the Thieika biock, where they will make their home hereafier Word has been received by the friends of Mr. and Mrs Warren Malliken of Fre- mont of the arrival of 2 daughter Friday | morning, & delighiful Christmas gift H Morris Wolfe died Friday morning a1 the | home of his sister, 783 North Twenty-first | :;«Ql The funeral will be announced er. The statement that N. E Carter was not low lidder for the Presbyierian church erroneous. Mr. Carier was in fact lo bidder an the origizal plans and epecifics- Biorn lodge No. 3 Inde; it Order of Yikings, elecict officers as Chiet, Mats Englund. vice chief, John Nystrom. Teconding secretary, P. E Blidt; financial gecretary. Béwa: H treasurer, Edward Stove. uustees, Larson, A ;\»mwm Johnson, Frod Stone. Fred | e ———— JOKN DOE IJKE HIS BOTTLE Man Would Prefer Freesing to Death to Being Separated from Camse of His Treuble. “There's & man freesing 1o death in the Snow out bere” was the alarm sent into the palice station from Twenty-first end streets. :. Dilion responded .o the emergency 1) 1 WYOMING WOOL MEN AWAKE Cheyenne Sends Ount Clremlars Calling | Attention ® wool icarket and Chey- has seat out circular letters to all ) shippers in Wyoming calling sttes- Y tion 1o the thas wer 10 the movement for & westers stor- Warehouse # get Letler prices for | turn to school after the holidays. Hamer Adcock has gone to his home. | Soremson. Mr. Pedersof is a well-known and from conditions at his home does not | farmer north of town and owns the farm | thisk it will be possible for him to re-|on which the counle will reside. | Wie< Fiore Schetfrer of Florence and Willlam Irving of Omaha were married wiil take up their res- Edward tending an week. ers.~ 07, was in Bellevue at- umni meeting day last Florence. F. H. Reynolds will leave Wednesday for crests there Billings, Mont, to take up his duties as| (hrie Baver was a Fiorence visitor tuperintendent of the Montana Water com- | Weanesday. iy ] The Eecnerolf club has issued invitations The Fiorence Pleasure ¢lub gave & dance at Pascale's hall Christmas evening. Jim Nicholson is spending & few weeks | at Polson, Mont. Eiols Thomss, who has been on the sick st 2ll week, i0 reported as Improving. James Barrett has sold his property on Main sireet and moved to Omaha. Mrs. W. H. Thomas returned from a very plereant visit with friends in Magquok While there she was much entertained. be- Kelly_expects to leave in the near lace. Jdaho, to look held December 9 in Adams' hail The deal for the purchase of the Pries lake property has been concluded and ihe deeds have been filed for record The deal ahows that Mr. Kirkendall traded his block of five frame houses at the south- west corner of Park avenue and Mason strerts for the Pries lake property. The | Pries lake property wae sold by Mrs. lde A Jorgemsen In addition George West sold four and a half acres of his place after | for its third dapce of the semson to be| Neb Tho revival meetings of Christian charch wil beg: of Japuary. Mr. E Von evengelist engeged for trat the Irvington the Zist day Farell is the date { West Ambler. and Mrs. Muir of Des Moines are i here to spend the bholidays with their daugbter, Mrs. Jacoby amily | Mr. and Mrs Aughe are expecied to re- turn from California about January 1 | Mrs. Davie has been entertaining a cousin | this week Mrs. Frazelle of Grand Is | visit her children. Mrs- Larson's condition i worse and she | bad 1o return to the hospital again | “Mrs. Thomas Shandy is confined to her | bed on sccount of sickness. Clerence Walsh is here from Lincoln to | spend the holicays with his parents. | Qua conference was held Sunday | night st Southwest church. On account of | the cold weather the presiding eider could {not be there and Mr. Anderson touk hi | place. | The Lagies’ Aid society met ut the home of Mrs Bopewits and finished a quilt Zleven were present and the proceeds were i { r nd i here 1o 1 quality of mercy In the court Was Do elasic enough for complete forgiveness Detective Mitchell introduced in bebalf of the prosecution & coat which contained that with the lighi-figured “That cost settles It” remarked judge as he wrote a sentence of ten days the sheep raisers, and urging them send their wool Lo Omaha. L. L King will represent the Omaha wool market at the meeting of the Wyom- ing Wool Growers' associatlon &t Chey- enne, January 3 and 4, and the meeting ot the Netional Wool Growers’ association at Ogden, Jepvary 6. 7 and & J. M Guild to the in evidence | booster” pocket o popular : Jateei e City Attorney Dunn's Plight Causes Withdrawal of |spend the Christmss bolidsys at Ywas,| | This section ie being treated to another snowstorm, something like six inches hav- ing fallen since Thursday night This, |covering the icy rosds, gives southeastern | Nebraska the best sleighing for years, and |the farmers and others are mot siow n | taking agvantage of the chance Sieichs of every size and description are pressed into service. Stow ocovers the trees end bulldings and the landscape presents & tru Christmas appearance. Deep Smow in Kanes | KANEAS CITY, Dec. S —For twelve | hours the smow has been falling through- |oat Kansas southern Nebraska and west. |ern Missourl Balina, Kan. reports that it | will have the first “white” Christmas since 186, The fact that this snow is the best thing that could happen to the fall-sown | wheat erop makes the season & meTry one for the farmers, who have practically all | their stock shelifred and are well prepared !wll'xm:r. | Chartty Workers Feed City’s Poor| 'Salvation Army and Volunteers of Has Big Scare| Peopie’s Courch and Are Treated | Baskets to Many Families. they can of the $10000 which they gave, back in 180, to the OXnards to start & suga: factory here | The main bdulliding s a mammoth'’ structure about two city blocks in length | and proportionately wide and high Its! walls are of brick and voment mortar and are two feet thick. The twelve 100-borse | power bollers are in perfect condition, as are all the bulldings. The indusirial com- peny has employed men to keep up the property in order that it might Dot de- teriorate. | WHITNEY IN THE FAR NORTH | Expericmces in the Hunting Ground | of the Musk-Ox—His Eskimo Assistants. 1 had come to hunt musk ox and rescived |to let no epportuntty for securing wrephies |escape me. .| At the foot of the mountasin twenty-one dogs were cut joese. They @4 Dot see | {the game and Tutshu, springing forward | TMke a deer, Jed three of them to the tralll above where the animals bad turned. Here the three dogs took the scent ind instandy | the whole pack were bebind them { As on former oocasions, the round-up | was made ut & high elevation. The Eski-| mos, far ahead oOf me, were shouting. | Haurry up! Hurry up'™ lomg before I | resched them, and urging me on. Whes 1 finully geined the mountain top 1 100k & wil] represent the Omaha Commercial club at these meetings and about fifteen ve stock dealers from South Omahs a» well as E Butkingham, general manager aguinst the name of Thomas. He was the only prisoner tcommitted to jail after the | Christmas morning session. Briefs and Substitution of Ones Milder in Tome. O e N, | Pofition el close ringe. One big fellow Christmas cheer and merriment did Dot | Sttracted me and wishing to photegraph reign alone in the homes of the rick and bim 1 ghing my rifie to Tukshi with in- y 3000 people—the Jess for- | structions to kill the"wnimal if it atlemptod of the Union Stock yards, have signified their intentien of attending the meeting CHRISTMAS BRINGS J0OY TO FAMILY OF FORTY Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cope Celcbrate Wedding Ammiversary with Chti- drem and Grandehildrem. Probably the most remarkable of the | Christmas gay reunions was the one held st the home of Mr. and Mra C. C. Cope ! sr. 814 Hickery street. Mr. and Mrs. Cope celebrated the fortieth anniversary of thelr Grins Way Into Jail; Grins Out ‘Jm Memetz Has All Others Eclipsed for Smile Which Won't Come Off. John Memets of South Omaba grinned his way into the city jall Christmas eve and smiled Lis way out again past Judge Crawford in the Christmas session police court The pairol wagon stopped st Sixteent and Dougias sireets Friday night aud | Memetz grinoing at ibe officers silienty sepped in sné took & seal They sup |posed that he was possid!. & special of ficer and allowed him 10 prooceed Lo the | station. forty in number. The party emjoyed & Christmas dinser, presided cver by the hesd of the house- Bold. Two tables were sei with twenty persons st @Rch table and a six-course dinper was served There were eighteen grandchildren present “C‘.C. f::‘ - :;:1.; |they couwld get out of him ai the stavios g 0" he was cast into & ceil for the mighi 208 s well known to the traveling publict o, B¢ T O . i by reason of his work ai Union Sation 41, 40 Crawford permitied him to take his passenger director. Mr. and Mrs. Cope are SISyt Xons the parents of fourteen chlidren, seven boys | “ZH¢ - enplans! an veven giria, eleven of whom are Wvics |EATAl CHRISTMAS QUARREL CHRISTMAS CAUSES LENIENCY Crawford Frees Al Offenders Except Dick Thomas, & Suspected Pickpocket. Wite's Curiosity Over Comtents of Package Starts Dispute Which Ends in Husband's Desth. COALGATE, Okl Dec. 3.—The refusal Julige Bryce Crawford beamed acroms the of Samuel F. Woods, & Santa Fe enginecr bench in police court Christmas Morning 1o ssisfy Lis wife's curlesity &s 1o th with the heartiest goodwill Twenty-nine gontents of a Christmas package he nad penitent boliday offenders, miostly those brought home, caused & family quarrel iast lwhe had partaken of Yuletide potations night and cost Woods his lfe an bour) |with more eagerness than discretion, were igter. During the gquarrel Woods choked | discharged in rapid euccession. his wife. She broke away and went 1o the “Tt is bad enough to have & besduche |nome of & neighbor, her brether, George Christmas morning Wwithout having 10/ Holland, accompanying her. Wools fol- muree # in Jail” sald the Judge as & flock |jowed and opened fire 6n the house Hol of “John Doe Grunks” departed |land returned the fire and shot Woods Bes Want Ace are Susiness Boosters. | That same cast tron smile was ail thail | ! (From a Staff Correspondent) LINCOLN, Dec. %—(Speciai)—The so- tion of the supreme court in recently @ls- barring L J. Dunn for using language W becoming &n aitorney and contempluois the court, caused a mighty seare office of the city atiorney Omaha Suortly after that order was emered by the City Attorney asked leave of the court to wi briefs in the case of Mark Updike aganst the City of Omahs, & personal ing After Mr. Dunn had re cine, Mr rnam caref Updike brief and promp was 100 hot for him 10 he snd was given pes ovurt ved his medi- Iy Tend over the ¥ concluded 1t ndle, 50 he asked sion to withdraw it That brief carried the name of Dunn, bul sube flied today 80 Dol carry e Dame of the assistant cliy atlorney ugh Judge Dean wrote a dissc opinion in the case whersin 1 J. Dunn filed & motion asking the court to vacits its order disharring him from practies holding the court had erred. Mr Duna himself &id ee with the minor.ty part of the court While the dissenting opinlon was being clamped to the original opinion. Mr. Dunu was saying to the cour! that it acted within its rights when it disharred him and that t had done its duty &s It should bave done Though Mr. Dunn refused to say morning that he intended finally to humble bimeelf before the court, 3 was generall Locepted that he would no longer hold out %0 when he climbed down off the high pedestal on which he perched there was litle surprise sround the siate house. Whether he had rend the dissenting opin- fon of Judge Dean is bot & matter of Tecord here the s | Medical Building. MINNEAPOLIS, Misa, Dee %—The melical buliding &! the sate uuiversiy was destroyed Ly fire tomight, causing » loss of i The prineipal loss is tha {to the apparstus and instruments. Lack lof sutfickest water supply proved gisas- rous. r 1 | in the| 1 tunate, bui Done the less deserving folk ot city—were mede happy through the voble Wwork of two charitable organize- tions, the Salvation ramy and the Volun- | tecrs of Amertea Standing out in the bitter, cold weather of the pre-Christmas days, expossd to the smow snd the stinging winds, the Charity workers received contributions from the kind-hearted public 10 €ATTY out the plans for helping the poor. The dimes, the nick- els and the penmies of the passersby, as ither were @ropped Into the comtribution boxes helped to swell the funds for car- rying ‘out the weik Friday afternoc the tue army™of charity workers began the distribution of Chrisy beskels and clothing bought with The mobey collected on the sireets. | Before nightfall 56 baskets, containing food, and qoantities of clotaing, bad been | jeft among the needy The Saivation Army distributed 30 bas- kets, each sntaining & Christmas @inner sufficleat to furnish & meai for from five 10 eight persons. In each basket was &/ chicken, frult of some kind, candy jelly,| nuts and, in some cases, Loys for the child- rea Adjutants Alice Dunten and uuwv(; Keller, who bave been identified with the | Omaba corps for mamy years, were in| charge of ihe work mssisted by volunteer | workers. New Tear's eve the Balvation army bas | wranged for & Christmas tree and enter-| | tainment for the chidren to be beld at| ihe army beadquarters st IT Daveapart | | street. Plans have been made to make |glad the hearts of L0 children st that | Ume The charity work under the aueploss of the Volunieers of Americs was in charge | of Major Jesnette Wilson. The Volunteers | distributed 3% Christmes baskets filied | wits holiday goodies and also provided a | large mumber of needy cases with warm clothing. Ssturéay DiEht an enteriginment was given for the chiiren at the head- | quarters, 17 North Fifteenth strest For stiff peck there i nothing better wan Chamberiaiu's Liniment |ance. Presently, | He 1s quite fearless! and even the mountain to atiack we, 1 approached very near with my camers. At the instant that | made the exposure, Jess than & dogen fect away, the infuriated bull broke from the ranks an with lowered hesd cherged me. I had mo | further bustness in that immediate viclnity | and proceeded 1o establish & sprinting record in the oppasite direction While 1 am not an aspirant for athletic | nenors, 1 have always been sorry there ! wis Do obe presemt with & stop waleh to time that effort. Tukshu held his h!t: much longer than 1 thought nDecessary. Perhaps be was interested in my perform- however, he 4id fire and | the beast dropped &t my heeis | In all my experience 1 had never eo- | countered & rougher, more aifficult coun- | try in which to hust than this iz Elles- | mere Land. Orginarily, 1 siowd bave | believed these mountatn sides, with walls of smooth rock shesthed with a crusm of | hard ice and snow, guite unscalable. In | pisces they were aAlmost perpendicular Rarely @id fhey offer a erevice to serve | a8 foot or hand held, and Justing points | and firm-set boulfers were too widely | scattered to be of much belp. In this, his Detive land, the Bakimo has | & decided advintage over the white hunter. | His lifetime of experience has taught him | to scale these loe-ciad beights with s | nimbleness and ease thal are astounding sheep is mot his superior as & climber. As | if by magic, and with little apparent ef- | fort, the two Eskimos flew up the slippery | walls, far outstripping me How thes @ 1t 1 shall never know. Now and agaln | 1 was forced to cut steps in the joe or 1| should inevitably have lost my footing and been huried & wand seversl hundred feet 10 the rocks bemeath. 1 was astonished even Al my own progress. and when 1 pavsed 1o glance behind me I feit & momen- tary panic. But there was Do turning back and one look robbed me of any Gesire to try #t. The Eskimo has ho comception of distance. He & endowed wWith certaln artistic instincts which ensble him to araw & fairly good mep of & coast line with which be is thoroughly familiar, but be n-u-d!ml-vh.hm—x i Scranton, Pa., Anthra- cite Western Coals Illinois Lump and Nut Washed Egg Cherokee Nut Iowa and Missouri Coals Prompt delivery and courte- ous treatment Peoples Coal Co. 1417 HARNEY P. C. Caldwel Breeder of THOROUGHERED BAR PLYMOUTH ROCK AND PIT GAME CHICKENS Stock and Eggs for Sale in Season Office 401 N. 24th Street, SOUTH OMAHA, NEB. Where fo eat. CHESAPEAKE CAFE e I henay, e Oyster Cocktail e ees Ses Turie sux Gutaelia T Baket Fiounder S3uce Alamanta Pommes & la Ritg Roast Suckl Beechnut Dreesing “Eont 25 ar Roest Young Turkey Stuffed Beat Tenderiols Champagne enderioin Preach Taas | Creaimes Mashed Foiatoss Waldorf Astoria Salsd Exglish Plum Pudding Nespoiitan Tee Creams ce Cotfes Tes Miln