Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 6, 1910, Page 7

Furnished THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 6, 1910. These cards free Business Office THE OMAHA DAILY BEE Rooms FOR RENT As advertised in The Omaha Bee. As advertised in The Omaha Bee. Y| Counci \ ' OMAHA LOSES TO BLUFFS Contest Between Debating Teams t Goes to Towa Boys. —— POSTAL BANK BILL QUESTION in Decision for After Strenuous Hven- Competition—=8chool Spirit Display The contest between the debating teams ot the Council Bluffs and Omahs High sehools, heid in the auditorium of the Coun- oll ‘Blufts High school bullding last even- ing was decided In tavor of the Hawkeyes, The decision of the three judges was unan- imous In favor of the Blutfs boys. The question debated was: ‘‘Resolved, t the United States should adopt & sys- of postal savings banks.” The Councll fs team, composed of Joe C., Grason, Willlam J. Lewis and Harry M. Cooper, the negative side of the question, the Omaha team, composed of Wil- bur, Haynes, James C. Van Avery and Rob- ert R Strehlow, discussed it from the af- ive standpoint. o Judges wers Prof. H. H. Hahn, sup- epintendent of schools at Blair, Neb.; At- y E. F. Lelgh of Bouth Omaha and Rev. Marcus P, McClure, pastor of the Fitet Presbyterian church of Councll Bluffs, . H. Kllpack, member of the Councll Blafts Board of Education, presided as chalrman, and during the evening the Councll Blufts High School orchestra gave weveral selections, and Miss Helen Hetrick n,‘ Roy ©O. Mauer played plano solos While the decision of the jueges was be- ing awaited the boys of the local high sohool entertained the audlence by singing “'Boola, Boola." LIOANS MEET ON MONDAY City Chatrman Calls Meeting Discuss Campaign Plana. Charles R. Hannan, jr., chairman of the Republican City Central committee has called a meeting ot the nominees on the republican munioipal ticket for next Mon- day afternoon for the purpose of discussing plans for the campalgu. The meeting will be held in the office of County Attorney J. J. Hess In the county court house and Chairman Hannan REPU to be there at 1:8 o'clock. Following this meeting Chairman Han. | S8} nan will arrange for a meeting newly-elected city central be held later in the week. In accordance with the Interpretation of the primary law, as given by City Solieitor Kimball, the city conventions must be of the committes to held on Saturday, March 2, this being the |, fourth Saturday after the primary. The city tickets of both parties are complete, 80 the republican and democratic conven- tions will have jpothing to do except to adopt platforms, At the primary Dan B. Reardon, although he had not filed papers as a candidate for the republican nomination for assessor, received sixty-twa votes, the voters writing in bis name on the ballots. This consti- tutes him the party nominee for-this office and the city convention will not now be called upon to fill the vacancy that exieted on the ticket prior to the primary. Mr. Reardon s a well-known insurence agent, and his friends look for him to be elected, A. A. CLARK & CO. LOAN MONEY ON HORSES, OATTLE AND HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND ANY CHATTEL SECURITY AT ONE-HALF THE USUAL RATES, Twenty Years of Successful Business CORNER MAIN AND BROADWAY, OVER AMERICAN un- 4 No connection with the firm calling themselves The Clari POTH PHONES 217, JINO. The Clark barber shop for baths. CORRIGANS, undertakers. 'Phone 148. FAUST BEER AT ROGERS' BUFFET. ‘Woodring Undertaking company. Tel. 389, Lewis Cutler, funeral director. ‘Phone #1. Baird & Boland, undertakers. 'Phone 12, Picture framin, specialty, C. B. Alex- ander, 333 Broadway. COMMERCIAL PRINTING OFFICE, 502 South Maln street. Independent ‘phone §73. Fxcelsior Masooic lodge will meet in spo- communication this evening for work in the third degree. OUR NEW LOCATION is at 837 West Broadway. F. A Egenc!r. plumbing and hnun. Phones mar e llcenge was issued yesterday 10" Albert ostph Fox, aged 2. and Julla . Endsley, aged 13, both of Omaha. All men wlm are members of the Brother- 00d of American Yeomen are requested to meet at the corner of Pearl and Broadway at & o'clock Sund: noon_to attend in 5 the meeting at the Young Men's hristian assoclaticn at which General Weaver will speak. a¥: C. Cattert, aged 9 years, died Thur t at the ooum home at MecC 'hree sons, ert, Harry and arvey Latfert, ail residonts of Crescent, on mrvln him. The body was brought to Cutler's undertaking establishment pending arrangement for the funeral, Mrs. Martha Mercer, aged 57 years, dted esterday morning at the home o( her son, ames Mercer, A A, Deceased Was & member of the 'omm ® auxiliary to encampment No. 1. Unlon Veteran legion. T'o iwughters and four sons survive her, Arrangements for the funeral had not been completed yesterday. Willlam H. Scheef, %8 East Broadway, {jed yesterday morning at the Edmundson [emorial hospital, llnfl Council Bluffs James V. Greene Claims Damages Suit for Large Sum Brought Against Great Western in Spite of Settlement. James V. Greene, who while employed as & brakeman on the Chicago Great Wes- tern rafiroad, was Injured while uncoup- ling cars at Bagle Grove, Is., on January 18, 1906, and received $2,000 as compensa- tion, has now repudiated the settiement and has filed suit in the district court for $23,000 additional. He names Charles H. F. Smith and Horace G. Burt, recelvers of the rallroad as party defendants with the Chicago Great Western Rallroad company. Greene lived at Eagle Grove and says he was but nineteen years of age at the time of the accident. He alleges that a claim agent of the railroad company visited him shortly after the accldent and that the claim agent persuaded him to con- sent to a settlement by which the com- pany was to pay §2000. He now claims that as at the time of the settiement he was & minor, the contract was not bind- Ing. Greene claims that his injuries have made him a cripple for lie. Otto Madsen has brought suit against the city council of Council Bluffs to re- cover §$1,00 damages for alleged personal injury, resulting from a defective side- walk. Madsen claims that on the night of September 13 last, while walking on Logan street, a defectiVe sidewalk caused him to fall Into & ditoh. The arc light main- tained by the city at the point where the accldent occurred, according to Madsen was out that night and consequently the place was shrouded In darkness. Henry Peterson, who on December § last shipped a carload of cattle from Guthrie Center, Is, to Chicsgo, has brought suit to recover 3800 from the %2 | Chicago, Rock Island & Pacifie Rallroad story hrln' her to Councll Bluffs. n‘. in charge of Mrs. Johnson at the omho aa r::“ooun will be asked to send her to the T #¥icol at Mitchellville. / company. Peterson claims that the cattle were delivered In Chicago one day late and that the market had dropped 50 cents per hundred, causing him & loss of 3800 by reason of the delay on the part of the Board and Rooms P As advertised in The Omeaha Bee. Council Bluffs raliroad in getting his shipment to the Chicago stock yards. Mrs. Mathilda Ryan seeks a divorce from Maurice Ryan, to whom she was married November 10, 1908, on the ground that Maurice deserted her two days after the marriage. According to Mrs. Ryan' petition the two days of married life which she enjoyed with the defendant were not such as a bride expects on her honeymoon. She alleges that Maurice not only cruelly struck her, but called her “vial" names. Mrs. Lizzle Stevens asks the court to annul her marriage to Freeman L. Stev- ens, with whom she went through a wed- ding ceremony in this city on September 13, 1%8. The plaintiff, who prior to the supposed marriage to Freeman L Stevens was Loulsa Macklin, alleges that Steven at the time of the marriage to her had a wife to whom he was legally married and from whom he had not been divorced, and who 18 still in the land of the living. The jury In the suit of the Commerclal National bank of this city against Attorney A. T. Flickinger brought In a verdict yes- terday afterpoon for $5,400, the full amount of the note sued on, and interest. The suit arose_ever the purchase of 1,160 acres of land in Holt county, Nebraska, by Fllck- Inger, C. E. Price, cashler of the plaintiff bank; Royal Hudspeth and James Record of Glenwood. Record pald his share, $1,600, in cash and the other three gave a note for the balance of $4,500. Flickinger claimed that Hudspeth's share had been pald and tendered his §1,600 In settiement of the bank's claim. Mr. Flickinger will appeal. J. C. Mowery has brought suit against the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rallroad company for damage in the sum of §1,080 for the destruction by fire of his home and contents on March 24, 18%. Mowery claims that sparks from a frelght engine belong- Ing to the defendant company caused the conflagration which destroyed his home. To Organize Woman's B LAKE CITY, la, March 5.—(Special.)-A number of Lake City women have taken the matter under consideration and have decided that if they could secure the sér- vices of a competent instructor they will organize & woman's brass band that will Appear in public and give Saturday evening concerts. Lake City has not yet organised & regular band for the summer, which it has had for several years, The Key to the Situation—Bee Want Ads, Council Bluffs Teachers Soon to Meet Here Leading Educators of Western Part of Country Will Attend April Beasion. ¥ The general program for the annual meet. ing of the Bouthwestern Iowa Teachers association, to be held in Councll Blufts April 14, 16 and 16, has been announced, It includes addresses by leading educators of the western part of the country and many excellent musical features. Following Is the program: ‘{’r Evening, Awlls Musical n&um—Councn Blutts Orchestra b ) and Gles Presiden Fridi My h—nogi A Jr 9e—Dr. W, M, ent Instructions, ferences. Davidson, Buperinten- Omaha Bchools Con- Friday Afternoon, April - Mullc—VIolln 8olo. uth Spindie il R e Couneil Blurt; Address—Tolstoy, The Man; H Dr. Bdward A.. Btelner, Friday ‘am of " Aprll 18 8!01’“- of Volces, Omal Bvenin) £ silhutes, Mo Agdress—The New Duty of the' Sehool, b Pu ress—Hon. John F. nig uperfntendent o( Instruct! Musie—Voeal Solo... Grace Barr. A%drel “The Irrepressible Boy T, Charies Fordycs, Univaraity ' ot Nebraska. Business Bession. . The officers of the association are Wlhlr Isbury, President, Clarinda. i ‘LT oftman, vice president, Den- g H. ver Chairman executive com- mittee, e blu 205, I.'l News NM.I. :sdly. llrch 1 h the time d.mf el Dublls int roads w‘ll doubtiess receive the unn~ hl% read lmprfllmen( is rosdway betors e e " De onsidered at h\” Council Bluffs HUGHES GOES FOR MAHER Omaha Man Out Aet Peacemaker Determined to Prosecute Assailant, ‘Willam Maher, bartender in a Coun- ofl Bluffs saloon, was arrested yés- terday, charged with murderously as- saulting James Hughes on the night of February 16 Maher and another man are sald to have engaged In & fight near Main street and Broadway on the night In question, when Hughes essayed, so he claims, the role of pesoce- maker. Hughes emerged from the mixup with & deep gash in the back of his hesd and had to be taken by the police to Mercy hospital, where he remained until yesterday. On leaving the hospital yes- terday Hughes sought the office of County Attorney Hess and filed an information in the court of Justice Gardiner agalnst Maher, who gave bond In the sum .of $1,00, for his preliminary bear which t for March 19. FHughes is & resident of Omaha. FOR MEDICAL AND FAMILY USB BUY YOUR LIQUORS AT ROSENFELD LIQUOR CO., 619 8. MAIN, 'PHONES 3323 Meneray’'s Photo Studio PORTAIT, NOME AND OOM- MERCIAL FEOTOGRAPXY, Ground Floor. Open Bundays. 85 South Main St., Counocil Bluffs, Is. Geo. W. Klein rfialuurlu Furniture Repair. and Refinished, Feathers Reuovated, Mirrors Replated, and all kinds of mattress work done. Both 'Phones, 19 So. Main 84, Conncil Bluffs, Have It Done Right,”