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By MELLIFICIA. R. GEORGE HARCOURT, the connoiseut of Terpsichorean art, bas | ppyyrg ARE ALL TO MOVE become so charmed with the fair sex of Omaha that he has de- —_— layed his return east for another week. | H During his engagement Miss Joan Sawyer, the world's most through Miss Eugenia Whitmore several members of the younger set, and since then has been loathe to leave. The cireunit closing for the summer months, Mr. Harcourt decided to|M" sojourn awhile in Omaha instead of leaving for the east, as was his plan. He hag been spending his time on the Country club links and as honor THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY TEN STORIES FOR SCHLITZ CORNER Wolf Completes Financing of the Deal and Secures Lease—To | Build at Once. Wednesday, May 26, 1915. A. Wolf, local real estate man, who at the Orpheum two weeks ago with |has held an option on the Schlitz hotel sorner from:. (eorge A. Joslyn, who bought beautiful dancer, Mr. Harcourt met| ., ~ ., ... trom the stockholders of the| First National bank, has completed his | option. The ninety-nine-vear leaso from | Joslyn tc Mr. Wolf has been de-| livered, Mr Wolf has succeeded in financing the proposition, has made peace with the prerent tenants so that they | guest at informal affairs given by the fairer sex. will move m"”nm: he vN'H lrrtl-"u\d' s lass t ’ soon as possible to erect a ten-story A new dancing ¢ has been organized at which Mr. Harcourt will fireprool wllding on the corner | The first meeting was held last evening at the Country| u, Wolf has succeeded in interesting be the instructor. club, and the members include Messrs. and Mesdames Fred P Hamilton, | some strong financial backing for his Ward Burgess, Frank Kennedy, J. T. Stewart, E. H. Sprague, W. T. Burna, |understanding, including Henry Hiller & W. J. Foye and W. D. Hosfo! and Louise Dinning, and Mes Hulk . ! Feder-Alpirn Wedding. The marriage of Miss Goldle Alpirn. | daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Alpirn. | and Mr. David P. Feder of St. Paul, Minn., was celebrated last evening at 6 o'clock at the Hotel Rome, in the pres- ence of relatives and immediate friends. | | Mr. Graham Lulag sang several selee- tions during the ceremony. | Miss Eva Alpirn, sister of the bride, | and Miss Mollle Corby were the brides- | maids, and Mrs. H. D. Marowits was the matron of honor. Mr. Abe Levy and | Mr. Lotis L. Periman of St. Paul were | the groom’s attendants The bride wore a beautiful gown of | fvory satin made along the Queen Anne Tines, with court trein. It had an over drape of splder web lace, edged with | tiny white satin rosebuds. Her tulle vell | was held In place with lilles of the val- | ley and she carried brides’ roses anl| lilies of the valley. Miss Eva Alpirn, mald of howor, wore a gown of sea green Charmeuse, made | with tunic of French hand embroidery edged with sliver rosebuds. Miss Corby's gown was paie yellow pussy willow tafreta, The askirt was draped over white lace and chiffon flounces. Ribbona were stretched by the Misses i 2t | it E;g 3 i ;m’ 228 Lee Burge i Nash. w‘ regular meeting of the Garden club was held this mornin 10:3 o'clock ut Ithe home of Mrs Harry P. Whitmore. Mrs. John N. Baldwin read a very inten esting paper on “Peonies.’ The members Mesdames— W. . Martin, For the Future. Mr. and Mra. Raiph Peters will enter- tain at dinher Wednesday evening of next week complimentary to Miss Elisa- heth Pickens and Mr. Kenneth Paterson, The affair will be given at the Country «club, mhlo;—!‘m st the Hotel McAlpin in | Registering New York City during the last week have ; the Misses Menie Davis, Ellzabeth Davis . Cuthbert Potter, A. B. Warren and C. W. Son. Ile ways that no leases have been made with any prospective tenant for space iIn the new bullding. Mr. Wolf says that_while he has enough appli- cations on file to fill the building, he does pleted. The bullding will be known as the Joslyn building and plans are being drawn by John McDonald, the architect. | Mr,. Wolf deposited $0,000 with Judge | Sulltvan, attorney for Mr. Joslyn, under | agreement made with Mr. Joslyn before he left for California. \Mayard Gets Third Call to Front, but is | ! an Aql_erican Now | Although he has received his thirl call | to return to France and fight In his for- | | mer regiment for his native country, M. Chares Mayard, director of restaurants at Hotel Fontenelle, Is not golng to (Ils‘ war. { “I am an American citizen and have been for three years,” he explained. | “The United States fs the only natian I | will ever fight for now." | He was a member of a regiment of | Alpine chasseurs and served his full time under the French tri-color before enter- ing the hotel business and finally com- g to America. He has three brothers now at the front in northern France, and has just received letters from two of them, One writes the Omaha man that many troop traine, bringing mundreds of the wounded soldiers back from the front, are filling the hospitals. He was him- self taken back Wl but not wounded. The other brother writes that he has teken German out of the course of study of his young son, who will hereafter learn to wpeak English. Jardine Wants Two Commissioner Jardine of the public improvement department will offer at the next city council meeting ordinances to provide for repaving Twenty-fourth Streets Repaved HE WANTED 0 ROVE THE SEA William John Frank Tries to Enlist When Yet Under Tender Age of 17 Years. | GETS HIS MOTHER'S CONSENT‘ | Procrastination” is a word that is not | found in the bright lexicon of Willlam| ) John Frank, 80 Bauer street | 9 Six montha ago Willlam John Frank | presented himaelf at the navy recruiting| I sffice and broached his ambition to get, onto a battleship. \‘V How old are you?' asked Chief Yeo-| man High W ‘T'N soon be 17, said Willlam John o' Frank, who was still 50 young as to be | X4 ashamed of youth | Y We can’t enlist you till you're 17 and| &p even then you'll have to get your par-| & ents’ consent,” he was told 9 Willlam John Frank, howsver, begged +f to be allowed to take the physical exami- W nation then and there. Iy May 19 he appeared at the station with| 9 his mother | & “I'm 17 today,” he announced with a| "!’ joyous grin. “C'n T enlist now?" | 9 Then mother apoke, Alas, she hadn't| &% raised her boy to be a sailor, and she| N aldn't know where he got this idea of | Y joining the navy, and he wax so young, &G it meemed only yesterday since he was a | & baby, and oh, he was stich a sweet baby, | she used to take him out in his perambu-| B lator and all the folks on the street just N‘I‘ had to stop and look at him and— H But Willlam John Frank interrupted | 7 with manhood's sternness. Such mem-| & orfes were not for him. No, no. What M have pretty bables in perambulators to 9 do with warlike young men who are & about to o out on battleships and shoot M3 off sixteen-inch guns. Avast. such Y thoughts and let us to the stern business QB in hand. Men fust work and women must weep. Has it not been so w by Rudyard Kipline, Rex Beact London and other stern warriors? g Azatn. | M Mr. High and others then reasoned with | 9 Willlam John Frank to such good pur-| N poss that he consented to return to the | X3 maternal roof and fig tree to give stit Y further thought to the alleged beauties 'W' of peaceful life ashore A( But it was no gand. Triesday, aftsr W apparently six days of meditation, Will- G fam John Frank appeared again to give himself up to the sea whers lite is wild ) and free singing. R “Fifteen men on n_dead man's cheat,| & Yo, ho, ho and a bottle of rum.” PN William John Frank is already on his 9 way to the naval training station at Chi-' &b cago. M SEVERAL SEWERS STOPPED | ¢ UP AND SEWAGE BACKS UP| 9p The city sewer department has received | * Ji complaints of sewers stopped up and | Y backing into basements. Among the worst [ &% cases were reported from Thirteenth and | 3 Dorcas streets, Sixteenth and Davenport | P streets, Bleventh and Clark streets and under the Tenth street viaduet. ‘Decoration Day PHOTY is ' Vach e street, Cuming street to Patrick avenue, and Twentleth street, Plerce to Center . Mrs. A. G. Peterson of Aurora, |streets. This work will be done under - state president, will also at- | the new law which authorizes the coun- ell to order repaving within a territory of one mile and a half from the city hall. 3 charge of her depart- ment's program, which will occupy a o rominent place on the comvention pro-| Under the same law the following re- |paving districts have already been de- cided on: Military avenue, Forty-fifth ptreet to city limits; Plerce, Sixth to Tenth streets; Thirteenth street, Leaven- worth to Martha streets. Other districts will be announced dur- ing the apring. In cases where streets to be repaved are surfaced with granite blocks it will be possible to relay the same blocks. Tn other blocks it will be only necessary to tear out only the asphalt surface and apply new material, Some of the old pavements are in such condition that continual repuiring is a waste of money, it Is stated. FIFTY CARS OF THRESHERS GOING TO KANSAS FIELDS A special train of fifty cars, all loaded of the Wayfarers. . Charles T. Kountre returns Friday New York City. . and Mrs, F. H. Davis left last evening Jlor Chicago. They will return Dr. George Hansen of Fairbury was a recent visitor to Omaha, the guest of, Richard Payne, Loring ¥lliott und other trie He attended the dentists' con- vention and remained over a short time after that gathering adjourned. Mrs. Ralph Connell of Tula Luscas, N. M., who hes been the guest of her father, Mr. W, J. Connell, for several days, leaves this evening for the south. Mrs. W. J. Connell, accompaniod by he: daughter, Mrs, Bdward Crelghton, re-| with threshing machines for Kansas, is turned Monday evening from several ' enrouie west over the Rock Island, carded in gsouthern Calitornia end San|to reach here at 7 o'clock this even- ing and leave for destination Friday morning, makine a daylight run. The ughter, Mrs. . L. Morgan, | cars are from the factories of the Rumley in Californis for two months. Later Mrs. | company, coming from La Porte, Ind., Hnflnwi::“"& Joined by Mr. Hart snd her| Battle Creek, Mich., and Stillwater, Minn. son, Haroid, Father of Bride Who Eloped Wants | Marriage Annulled Mrs. Elsle Marle Richmond, 16-year-old | bride, is an vnwilling plaintiff in & suit | in Alstrict court against her husband, | Emmerson Donald Richmond, with whom she eloped January §, to annul the mar- e. It Is brought in the name of her father, George Nachneber, who declares | bis daughter is too young to wed, | Fhe young ‘ulks were principals in the | old story of the escape from unrelenting parents, the hasty trip across the Mis- sourl river, and the wedding In Counell | Bluffs. The céremony was performed by | Justice of the Peace John Cooper of the Towa city. i “But, according to the petition filed in | court, the parents immediately separated | the two who desired Lo be one and Mrs. Richmond: 18 now being guarded @t her | father's home. 53 William street, where, | says the petition. the stern parent is | keeping them apArt “with hia entire abil- | Tiart loaves this evening to Sterilized It means uniformity. of the blue milk below. ‘Walt two years,” saye father Wheat Takes Drop | of Four t_ofive Cents|=— | Following Chicage, the Omaha ‘hl'll\ market, sold off | 0 6 cents, L4 per bushel, being the highést price paid. | There were nine carloads on the market and two sold. The balante was onmql‘ OV Corn was up ¥ of a cent, seiling at 70 gents to Tik cents, with thirty-two car-| Outs weye steady to unchanged trom | Tuesday #t 48 cents. to % cents u-r‘ bushel. Ten carloads were on the market. i Best for Constipation. ‘ The best medicine for constipation is Dr. King's New Life Pills, mild and ef- foctive and keep you well. e Al drug- Fista. —Advertisement. Irn all Weathers and in all Temperatures No matter how quickly the temperature rises, no matter what the weather, fresh, rich cream and milk are always waiting for you if you have Cottage Milk means milk economy and milk . llhflnfllmmk i nearly all in the cream at the top and nearly all out | Cottage Milk is rich and creamy—condensed under the InTwo Sizes—5 and 10 cts. At All Good Dealers Is Only Four + Days Away You'll want your clothes fixed up of course, and we suggest you call Douglas 963 ‘the first thing in the morning and one of our “hurry up” autos will come for them. S And remember, please, you get b} y—the bast that 7 Skill and Experience can produce, ¥ a7 Why not have the BEST? ) The Pantorium B.—Our 9016 Farnam St is maintalned NP for your conveniemoce. f = ot > Headquarters for KAYSER Silk Gloves 1,600 On Sale Thursday, Friday and Saturday, at pair. . . . Patent leather, bronze kid, satin, atterns. Every pair of these shoes are worth $3.50 to $5.00. dull kid and heels, new Middy V‘Iue' to sl.so Decoration Day Outing. Sises 8 to 40, for childreh and New Lingerie Blouses '1.00 Dainty new blouses, lace and embroidery trimmed. Boys’ Wash Suits, 65¢ | Regular Jave Rice Face Powder—All shades. Box StickerBpectat st...........17¢ We Memorial Day. Here are Some Special Items 3x68 All-Wool Regulation Army Bunting §1.08 each, and up to 6x12 for §7.50. 8x6 Fast ags able iron socket, for windows and porches. All complete in box for. Have a Pumps & Main Floor Shoe Dept. $2.55 Pairs of Women's dull calf and white nubuck—all late, up-to-date lasts and ornaments, strapless, La Valliere, button or ribbon laced oxfords. derful array of new styles, excelient makes. All sizes and widths. Special, a pair— Oxfords New A won- f_ox; Picnic and Outing 1,500 Middy Blouses for this sale, just in tfme for your ear Blt;uses =79 Crepe de Chine and Lingerie Blouses ‘1.9 ‘Wonderful new models, low or high neck, long or short sleeves. $1 to $1.50 Values From the Ely- A splendid variety of new styles —Vestee, Walker D!‘_\ middy, Dutch sults, Eton Goods Co., St. and Oliver Twist styles. | : Plety of plain white” | Louis, and a and a splendid variety famous Phila- of coldrs to fit every Y g age, 1 to 8 years. I | delphia shirt the Boys’ New Depart- maker ment, Third Floor— SOME EVEN LESS Drugs and Toilet Articles Some Attractive Items Fletcher's bottle . e e | Ph; p *"25¢ Dabrool w Perfume—Ounce ........ 3 Wisard Floor Ofl—#1. &L ] Complete Line of Flags for on jointed poles, ropes and malle- Unsweetenea The Free Furnished Room Bureau of The Bee as a guide to the more desirable rooms in this city can not be equaled and should be taken advantage of by all of the young men and young women coming to Omaha seeking em. ployment and a good home. It means everything to live in a neat, clean, home-like place, where everything is done for your comfort and pleas- ure, and it has been the aim of The Bee to offer this service free ?nd help the stranger find a desirable home with a high class If you are looking for a furnished room offering every modern convenience at a moderate cost, it will save you time and trouble by calling at The Free Furnished Room Bureaun, Room 104, Bee Bldg., or call Tyler 1000, ON SALE SATURDAY at 50c on the Dollar ws AT SN, e A Taime st Cut Prioes. R