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THE BEE: ALLEN TALKS T0 G. & R| Former Senator Addresess Veterans at the Auditorinm. SOLDIERS TO GO TO CHURCH Two Meautiful Services Will Be He on the Missourl River Front ters Graves Are to Be Decprated. All arrangements have finally been com- pleted for the formal observance of Decora- tion or Memonial day by the general com- mittees of the Grand Army of the Republic having charge of the affair. Several changes will be made from pre- vious years. The parade will be much shorter, as will be the formal platform services at the Auditorium. Decoration of the graves by the Grand Army of the Re- public wiil be held Saturday, May 28, at the several cemeteries, assisted by the Woman's ‘Rellef corps because it 1s not thought that the flowers will keep until Monday. The ritualistic services, however, will be carried out Monday forenoon In the cemeteries by Woman's Rellef corps. will be observed by the several posts and corps attending divine service at different ehurches in a body: The platform exercises will be Held in the Auditorium, with ex-Senator W. V. Allen of Madison as the principal orator. There will be no ritual services at.the.Aditorlum aside from a short musical and literary program, with the roli call of the dead for the Grand Army and the the year. On Friday afternoon the vet- erans will address the wseveral publte schools, Sunday afternoon the naval reserve corps will launch a floral boat on the river, as- sisted by the Woman's Rellef corps. The Ladies of the Grand Army will carry out thelr usual program of decorating the graves of the dead at Forest Lawn ceme- tery in the forenoon in accord with their ritual, assisted by thirty young giris in white, Monday forenoon and will observe the custom of decorating the waters in the afternoon of Monday. Program for Monday. The officlal program for. the observance of Memorial day has just been lssued by the general committee and is as follows: The parade will form at 2:30 Monday on Capitol' avenue, the right resting on Six- teenth street. Naval reserve, Natlonal Guard, high school cadets,, mall carriers and other semi-military organizations will form on the south side of Capitol avenue west 'of Sixteenth street and the Grand Army of the Republic and Spanish War Veterans will form on the north side of Capitol -avenue west of Sixteenth street. Carriages containing chairman of the gen- eral committees and speakers of the day and Invited guests will form on Capitol avenue west of Sixteenth street, facing ‘Seventeenth street. The Woman's Rellet dorps; the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Spanish-American War ‘Women's auxiliary socleties will form on ,Howard street, facing Fifteenth street. The parade will move at 3 p. m. sharp, Line of march will be from Sixteenth and Capitol avenue south of Douglas, east to Fifteenth and south to the Auditorium. The order of the parade will be: Platoon of Police. Blijah Dunn, Marshal of the Day, Jonathan Edwlr , Chief Aide. Sixteenth United es Infanry Band. FIRST D VISION. Charles W, Alh-n‘ Assistant Marshal. Lla 1 .G BLCOND DIVISION, Jonllhln Edwards, Assistant Marshal, igh School Cadet B nd. igh 00] Cadets Mall Clrrlerl And Other Eeml Military r THIRD D! Perry Miller, Aul-um Marshal, g ar Veterans. Spa) nish izations. Mlncelllrfoul Or Carriags Decoration of the Waters. Immediately at the close of the exercises at the Auditorium, at § o'clock the beauti- ful ceremony of the Decoration of the ‘Waters in memory of the American soldler and saflor dead, of all wara buried and lost at sea, will be observed with appro- priate céremonles, under the auspices of the Ladles of the Grand Army of the Re- public; at the Douglas street bridge. The ritul ceremony will be carried out on the river bank at the bridge, and at a given' signal thirty young gir! ed in white will drop wreaths of flowers from the bridge onto the bosom of the river. First Lieutenant Otho E. Michaells of the Bixteenth United States infantry will be the orator, In view of the scarcity of flowers for Decoration day purposes, the Ladies of the Grand Army have telegraphed to Texas for | | a suitable quantity of flowers, JassanfThes. « This organization will also observe fts ritual ceremony in decorating the grav of the soldier dead in the several cem teries the morning of Decoration day. The special ceremony will be carried out at the including Soldlers' circle in Forest Lawn cemetery at 10 a. m. Monday. Several posts of the Grand Army of the Republic with thelr auxillary Women's Relief corps will attend services in a body the morning of Memorial Sunday, as fol- lows: Grant post and corps, All Saints' church, Twenty-sixth street and Dewey Custer post and corps, Lowe byterian church, Fortieth and Nicholas streets. Crogk post and corps, Hillside Congrega- tional church, Thirtieth and Ohio streets. Army Notes ' Compmny D, signal corps, has been or- dered from Fort Omaha about June 17 to Nashville, Tenn;, to attend & military tournament te be held on the state fair grounds. Upon completion of that duty the company will proceed to Chickamaugn Park, Ga., to participate In duties of the camp of instruction to be established there. Upon the breaking up of that camp the company will return to Fort Omaha. In view of the mear departure of the Beventh 'cavalry for the Philippines. 135 men of that command whose terms of wervice will expire within the next six months have been transterred to the Sixth cavairy at Fort Des Moines. Captain R. Boyd Miller of the medical reserve corpe, United States army, was a visitor at army headquarters Monday, Leave of absence for two months and twenty-one days has been granted Captain R. B. Wx\pf the Bleventh infantry, Fort D. A. Russe! !. Wyo. Leave of' mu for ene month has been granted Second Lieutenant Wads- worth, jr., of the Fifteenth cavalry, Fort Riley. — Honorable discharges from the regular army by purchase have besen granted Cor- poral James L. Rogers of Company L, Third battalion of engineers; privates Danigl Hood of Battery F, Sixth field ar- il ,-and Clayton Hllligos of Treop C, Seventh cavalry, ~ Memorial Sunday | extraordinary.- i bargain prices. - BRANDEIS Stores OMAHA Great Annual Sale Muslin Underwear Saturday, May 28 ‘We have been preparing for this grand annual event for many months and the bargains will be If you can possibly make a special trip to Omaha for this event, you should do so because you can save a great deal by buying your entire season’s supply of undermuslins at theu great, Brandeis Stores ( o A e et ety A Sale of PICTURE FRAMES Is Scheduled for Next Saturday. -4 Big Bargains. ) On Sale the Entire Weeic Diamond Jewelry as diamonds. can nearly always be realized. sition for you. showing—nearly all different teenth street window display Diamond Brooches—Some large pear]l sunbursts, worth $20.00 to | $40.00, for $11.50 Diamond Stick Pins (50 pieces) worth $10.00, for $4.98 Diamond Solitaire Rings (15 pes.) —worth $26.00, at...813.75 Diamond Solitaire Rings—Worth $18.00, for .. Piamond Stick Pins—Worth from $8.00 to $100.00, at half-— for........ $4.00 to $50.00 Large Diamond Crescent—With 20 diamonds, worth $230.00, for . $115.00 kind of big value. proved spring styles. pongeée sflk-—full length coats. $25.00 values. day, at. . Blacfitb LINEN A groat gift buying occasion surely | Diamond At the same time we are going to show some long coats at the same figure—blue serges and tan These, too, are Choice of suits v coats Tues- nd White Checked SS GOODS In the face of the great popularity of black and white checks wé are able to offer them at sharply cut prices. wide and come in various size checks; for dresses and coats. SUITINGS AT HALF REGULAR—Go through the entire 630 Pieces Mounted Diamonds From the Bankrupt stock of the ILLINOIS JEWELRY COMPANY AT HALF PRICE No item in merchandising has its value so thoroughly established They never grow out of style or deteroriate in value. Instead the tendency is constantly upward, hence the purchase price Here’s a plain money making propo- We quote prices on diamonds at half their real worth. —630 pieces in the in design. See the big Six- Lockets (64 pieces) Solid gold, set with perfect cut stones wefghing % to 1 kt.; all HALF PRICE. Brooch—Worth -$149.00 Diamond Sunbursts—Some with pearl clusters; $18.00 values— Large Diamond $300.00, for for . £ el ng 89.00 Diamond Studs—Worth $15.00—- TSR A MR $8.50 Diamond Cuff Links—Worth from $10.00 to $20.00— $5.00 and $10.00 The Jewelry Sale Continues All Week. Our New York Office Sends Us 100 New Tailered Suits To Sell at $15.00 That means that every one was considered the best They measured up as the week’s most interesting development in New York garment circles. We are not overstating facts when we say they are $25.00 and $30.00 suits, and fashioned after the most ap- B 49c The goods are 52 inches wash goods line, select any linen suiting in colors you prefer. There are from $3.50 to $4.00, special . nice line to select from. store. BRUCKER HEADS THE COUNCIL Councilman from Fifth Ward Elected on First Ballot. DAVIS IS VICE PRESIDENT Election Will Make, Brucker Acting Mayor During the Absence of Mayor Dahiman the Oity. President of council, Goodley Brucker, councilman Fifth ward, democrat. Vice president, Charles M. Davis, Twelfth ward, republican. This was the outcome of the voting at the meeting of the city councll for reorganiza- tion at 2 o'clock this afternoon. But one ballot was taken in the election of each man. No other names were pre- sented. For the first year of the council just ended, Councilman Burmester, republican, hgs been president and thus acting mayor when Mayor Dahlman is out of the city. The agreement between the six republicans and three democratic councllmen—Brucker, Johnson and Sheldon—last vear was that One of the three latter should be made president this year and a republican next Year. Drucker was the man picked by the combination. Brucker was nominated by Johnson and recelved nine votes. Councliman McGovern recelved two votes, cast by Bridges and Funkhouser. Davis received nine votes likewise, on the first ballot, the two negative votes being cast by Funkhouser and McGovern. Previous to'the voting Funkhouser nam- inated Bridges, who withdrew; Bridges nominated Funkhouser, who withdrew; Mo- Govern nominated Burmester, who with- DON’T GO For vacation without having your watch put in order u —or carrying one of our new ones. Spend a few minutes in our Look for the name. S. W.LINDSAY, Jeweler 1516 Douglas Street. 'BETTER MAIL SERVICE We have a very drew; Bridges nominated McGovern, who forgot to withdraw, belng busy smoking. City Clerk Butler, presiding while the or- ganization was made, named Funkhouser and McGovern to escort the new presideht to the chair. President Brucker made a brief speech of thanks and then Council- man Davis, who' Is absent on his honey- moon, was made president pro tem. President Brucker at once becomes acting mayor, as Mayor Dahlman leaves this even- ing for a visit of a few days in the west- ern part of the state. FOR SUBURBAN DWELLERS Tangle s Straightened Out by Put- ting Disputed District Into Omnh After considerable correspondence and much tribulation, Postmaster Thomas has finally loosened the Gordlan knot in the matter of the distribution and collection of malls n that territory lying between the western limits of Omaha and Benson. The route comprises a big area of territory sparsely populated, and has been served heretofore from Benson by Benson rural route No. 8 An. order has just been received from ! the Postoffice department directing - the transfer of the route trom Benson No. § to routé No,.2, Omaha, to be operated from Station D at tleth and Cuming streets, Omaha. The carrier will leave Sta- | tion D at $:30 a. m. and will return with | 3 collections at 3 p. m. Benno A. Nickels, now serving this route, will be transterred with the route to Omaha. Thé total mile- age of the rovte is elghteen and one-half miles. Some of the patrons live within the ity limits of Omaba. but most of them | live outside the corporate limits, Persistent advertising in The Omaha Bee | is the road to Big Returns. | MOTHERS FRIEND A LINIMENT FOR EXTERNAL USE. One of the most valuable qualities of Mother's Friend is that 1t safe-guards the future health of the mother. It is a liniment to be applied externally to the body, the use of which lubricates the muscles and tendons, softens the glands and ducts, prevents lumps tmghmmum-mmn«v?_ which 'S0 many expectant mothers suffer." wwnhmmmmmn"m" 0 massage with this great liniment are and recover more Mother's Friend is sold at drug stores. Write for our free book gontaining valua- troubles from tion of the term. Women much suffering when baby ble information for expectant moshers. nauges, and other Mother's Friend is COnSumIma- saved quickly, and without 1l effects. half a doze: 3 {fer;pt weights and textures. The price will be just ha! "Put Up Your Pineapples Now The best cnnning pineapples we can secure are here now. Tues- day we, offer 100 crates of fine large Florida Pine- apples, DF(.kEd 42 to a crate, worth regularly .. $2.85 “Gas Service” Restaurant Service:— Customers ‘‘want what they want when they want it’’ and they, go where they can get it. Promptness is the keynote of successful restaurant service. Our experts will give prompt attention to any demand you care to make upon their time, experience and training. If you are not satisfied for any reason or want in- creased capacity, send for one of them and he will tell you what can be done, and, if you desire it, will person- ally see that it is done right. - Omaha Gas Company { Not an. Milk Trust| The Original and Genuine HORLICK’S MALTED MILK The Feod Drink for All Ages. Forlnfnh lnvalids,and Growing children. Pure Nutrition, upbuilding the whole body. ud:enw-nunmtheund the aged. Rn:g milk, malted grain, in powder form. A quel luach p prepared in a minute. 'l'lhnulnldutc.AnHorHOllJCl' | Others are mu’tuhom. Hotel Rome Huropean IN THE HEART OF THINGS Cor. 16th and Jackson Sts. Two blocks from leading department stores and all theaters. # ROME MILLER. Rellablo Dontlotry ‘THE BRADFIELD 00., ATLANTA, GA. Taft's llental Huums I Drexel’s Men’s $3-50 Specials $3.50 may sound cheap in these days of high prices, but this is not a cheap shoe except as to price only. Many. $3.50 shoes are not worth any near that price. You do not know it till you've worn them a week or less; it's too late. Men take no such chances on a Drexel $3.50 special. We gee to it that every pair has MORE than $3.50 in value in them, We guarantee this or give you your money back. Patent colt, velour and box calf and viel kid in all the new lasts, where IDrexel Shee Co. mq Farnam St. |Extra Spe | Facing Farnam Street Very Spoclal Bargains Tuosday [ Visit Our New | Everything Bakery Goods Imaginable in Department High Olass in Buqment Bakery Goods \THE RELIABLE STORE Four Delightful | Garment Bargains $26 TAILOR SUITS, $10 A swell line of new spring suits, in diag onals, serges, panamas and fancy suit; ings, not a suit worth less than $1: 5.00 up to $27 5.00, choite _____________________ $10.00 at Beautiful Silk and Net Dresses o —— Values up to $35.00,, foulards, messa lines, nets; ete., all colors, including a beautiful line of evening shades—matchless at . s]glgu Dress Skirts, Worth to $7.50 — I'ine pan: » mas, irrgrey, navy, brown and black, al newest styles—on sale at ¢ $2045 $7.50 SILK KIMONOS, $3.95. Beauti ful designs, made extra full, a great snap, in Tuesday’s snln, choice $3 95“ SEE OUR MATCHLESS DISPLAY OF EXQUISITE WHITE DRESSES AND GOWNS. Loom end strips of embroid- eries that would sell regu- larly at 20c; 5 and 6 yards in a strip; immense assort- ment of beautiful new pat- terns; on sale Tuesday, at, yard .10¢ Foulards and Rough Pongees in all the rich new shades of brown, helio, navy, res- eda, French blue, tans, ete.; choice selections and big bargains at.39c¢ and 59¢ cials Tuesday in Our Famous Domestic Room From 8:30 to 9:00 a. m. | From 2: 00 to 2:30 p. m, v : his.| 10c percales, 32 inches wide, fine ”11"54335.“?‘3,fi‘éi"fi;.i:"fo?";fi;f 10| styles, fast colors, 10 vards limit, at, yards limit, at, yard 4% ¢ vard .......cen . B¢ From 3.00 to 8 12%c Union Linen Huck Towels, very large and very heavy mill No. 4784, 5 pairs to a customer, at, each 81 ¢ From 4:00 to 4:30 p. m. From 9:00 to 9:30 a. m. Maco Sheets, 72x90, regular price 69¢, | 6 sheets limit, at, each .... 36¢ From 10:00 to 10:30 . m. 42x36 Pillow Slips, No. 4777, regular | Genuine Indigo Blue, full standard 16c quality, 6 cases to customer, at,| prints, regular price 6c, 10 yards GAOD i s T e o 0@ Hmit, at, yapd toies iy 2% ¢ The Fmi Car of Pine AN small fruits were destroyed by the frost. to put up pineapples for the next winter supplies. This car will be put on sale Tuesday, and the opening sale prices will be as follows: s 4 12%¢ Each 5¢, Tk%¢ 56¢. 10¢ an Per dozen, §0¢. 85¢. 95¢, $1.10. 81 We advise you to buy early, as the short rrop "of other fruits will have a tendency to force pinéapple prices up. Monday's prices on all groceries, butter, cheese, crackers, fresh vege- tables and fruits. Ponaer TRY HAYDEN'S FIRST rave romfl o pples For This Season We' advigé our customers f v on the ground floor The best location in Omaha for many lines of business is opposite the Court House and next to the City Hall. \ 1t is very seldom that it is possible for you to get one of the ground floor rooms in { THE BEE BUlLDlNG The entrance is just west of the main entrance of the building; it has an entrance from the court as well. The building furnishes heat, light, water and janitor service. The building is fire-proof and there is a large brick vault, 80 you can cut out your insurance expense. The room will be remodeled and redecorated to suit the tenant. The space can be arranged to give tenant 1,850 square feet it desired. If this is the best location for you, now is the time to grasp the opportunity, and apply: @t once. Apply to R. W. BAKER, Supt., Bee Business Office. — Get off at Omaha & ! 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