Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 29, 1915, Page 12

BRIEF CITY NEWS Jitney Watches at Bdholm's. Mave Moot Print It—Now Reacon Press Risctrie Fans—Burgess-Granden Co. Radiatos Bfficlency—Tho plate dinner served at Schlitz hotel Joln ¥. M. ©. A. on special summe: membership plan. Then use it. .60, joysen’s Famons Virginia Nam will be served for lunch at the Falstaff Buffet Saturday. | Butler Meturns—City Commissioner | Butler has returned from a rest at Fx- | -elsior Springs, Mo Dr. A. A Oraadell announces removal | of his dental office to suite 342 Brandeis theater bullding. Phone Douglas 4. Dr. James P. Connolly, Dentist, wishes | te announce the removal of his offices to 20-01 Brown block, 16th and Dougl Sts. Formerly in City National bank “Today's Complete Movie Program’ claasified section today, and appears ia The Bee EXCLUSIVELY. Find out what the various moving pleture theaters offer. Quinlan Bound Over—John Quinlan, charged with the breaking and entering of Ed Thiel's tallor shop at 719 South Six- teenth street, was bound over to the dis- trict eourt with bonds fixed at §,000. Tries to Pass Worthless Cheok—Mike Zona of Genoa, Neb., was sentenced to ninety days in the county jail for at- tempting to pass a worthless check for #15.75, to which had been signed the name of J. H. Canill, Geotge B. HMaynes Out of Nospital— George B. Haynes, formerly city pas- senger agent of the Milwaukee rallrond here and now general passenger agent, with éffices in Chicago, is just out of the | hospital, where he underwent a serious | operation on his sgymach, Find, Btranger in Oellar—A. H. Hen. drickdon, 1841 South Forty-firet street, reports to the police that upon going to the basement Thufsday evening to fix the furnace hie surprised a man hiding in the edal room. Before he could apprabend the ‘fellow, however, he had made his escape through the cellar window, Hendrickson gave a description of his find to Chiet Maloney. Sewer Bids Are Opened—Bids have boen opened in Commissioner Jardine's office for sewer improvements which will cost nearly $75,000. The following were the low bids recelved: Fifty-first, Leaven- orth, to Saddle Creek and Poppleton venue, Fifty-first to Fifty-third, J. J. ighen company, $18,20.92; Grant reot. Forty-fifth to Forty-seventh, A. G. Schrelber, $1,17%.92; extension of Miller park storm water sewer on Twenty-sev- enth avenue, Crown Point avenue to north line of Miller park, $634905.22, Teachers Peeved Over Delay in Time for the Pay Check 2%e Quite a breese is stirring in school af- fairs over the circular sent to the teach- ers, ‘announcing that thelr last warrants of the sohool year will not be distributed until Tuesday, June 22, four days after the close of school. Acting upon the custom which has been in vogue for twenty years, many of the teachers made plans to leave on Satur- day, June 19, the day after the last day of achool. This sudden announcement by Pregident Ernst of the Board of Educa- 4 tion ‘broughit forth all sorts of comments. L When: gthe. Ernst = oiralar was - re- ceived bne of the principals, ' with. & prophetia |visiom, - made this remark:’ “The mob In Caesar is like a May day affair compared to what will follow this announcement.” Another outburst was: to elect this Board thig is what we get."” President ©mst declared he would not sign the warrants until “after the work had been done,” which would be on Sat- urday, June 15. The board will meet on Monday, June 21, to approve the payroll and the teachers will be paid on the fol- lowing day. It 1s generally agreed that Mr. Ernst is acting within the la \ “We all helped of Education, and Hummel Says the Senile Goober Has No Plf_o_e in Parks ““All peanuts sold in the public parks this season must be within the require- ments of the pure food laws."—Park Commissioner Hummel. Joé Hummel says that peanuts are worthy of respect, and he'd who sell them in the parks must be quite circum- spect. A mut is but a nut, and never can be more, but the vendor of a senile goober makes Hummel very sbre. His dictum s law and his orders just as | brief, and the man who'd vend unworthy | nuts will surely come to grief. Place & ecrown upon the peanut and give Joe & credit mark; it's time to rout the unkind churl who'd sell peanuts in the dark. We all may have a lark with neanuts in the park, and while the band plays “Tipperary” we'll take a stroll with Mary and with a nickel in our jeans our bill of fare may vary. Where are the peanuts of yesterday, those of uncertaln repute? They've traveled the dark way of dire disrepute | and with us no more can dispute. Sing Ho! Sing Ho! for the merry peanut, for the nut with a family tree; lest we whould forget, we will all say it yet, Joe Humme} set the world free. | GREEN PICTURES WAR AS ] A DESTRUCTIVE MONSTER In his Memorial Duy talk to the boys and girls of Columbia school this after- noon, W. H, Oreen urged his younsg listeners to regard war as the last re- sort in upholding national honor. He plotured was as & destructive monster [ want all of my friends here to honor onie “lag, one country and ome God. 1 wan. you to look on war as o tersible thing and to be avolded if possible, Do/ 1ot be ashamed to work with your hands | and do net look down on those who -nl in lowly places. I know what it fs to te down and out and I know what & word of encouragement meant when the way weomed dark,” said Mr. Green to the| chiidren, | WALKER GETS 90 DAYS FOR ATTEMPTED ATTACK John Walker, colored, Was sentemced 1o ninety days in the county jall for an attempted attack on Mrs. L Harvey, 272 Farnam street, and her littie boy. Walker applied at the Harvey home for something to eat and when refused | started after My Harvey and the boy. who ran out the frout deor of the resl- | dence and ocalled to Otficer O. P. Peter son, who was passing the house. Peter , #on brought Walker to headquarters. 4 {who called, { Born in Hollldaysburg, Pa., December 14, | way, riding a horse on the tow-path jthe canal that passed through the town where his parents resided. For this work UNCLE JOE REDMAN, he received $8 per month, working seven ] day. - - With the beginning ef working out, Answe Call .| Uncle Joo Redman finished his education e "h! l“‘ lo.t P.“ce #0 far as schools were concerned. How fully Surrounded by His ever, in after years, always being a thor- Large Family. ough student, he acqy A pretty fair education, mastering all the common b1 C e public schools of ONE OF EARLIEST SETTLERS bronches taught in the public school the country. 3 ,.| For two years Uncle Jo# Redman rods Joseph Redman, one of Omaha's| s the canal company and then turned | oldest pioneers passed away Friday |his attention to farming, finding em afternoon at 1:05 at his home., He | ployment near his home. At the age of has been gradually sinking for tne | years he heard the call of the west nd, securing deck passage, went dawn |a | last week, having been unconscious|,) . 'cnio river on one of the boats to the | for the last two days. | Misaissippl, and then up that stream tq | To Uncle Joe Redman, death came like | Dubuque. At Dubugue he remained one & sweet, peaceful sleep. It was a grad-| vear, and then went back to Ponnsyl- ual wearing out of the human machine. | Vanla, where a few months later he His health had failed so gradually that | married his first wife, Miss Mary Jane when called, he passed away without a [Fair, who died many years ago, and to struggle, surrounded by the members of whom all of his children were born his family. Conscious almost to the last, though weak, he recognized his friends and of whom there were soores, men and women who have grown to manhood and womanhood and have led Down Ohlo. Early In the spring ot 187, Mr. Redman, | his wife and their two bables bade bye to the old Pennsylvania home and bee uring passage on one of the Uhlo ome fathers and mothers and even | HOCTNE PRCRR M0 PR Tk o 0 an vt Whopes . St o0 ""\iu.»u of the country that then was little acquaintance of this ploneer who gone. Joseph Redman was a ploneer of the pioneers, coming to Nebraska long prior to the period when statehood commenced and from that time until his death he Was a continuous residemd of the state, | Douglas county and the city of Omaha. 88 | known, except that it was spoken of da i'hn abode of Indlans and the range for countieas herds of buffalo. The Ohlo | river boat carried the Redmans | Louts, and from there they came of the steamers that then were numerous on the Missourl. They were thirty day | In reaching Omaha and, early the morn- o " | ing of May 12, 1857, stepped off the gang- 30, at the time of his death he was past| ;.\ gt a point near what is now the & years of age, and during the elghty- | foot of Farnam street. five years and mare of hia lite. he had| "y couple of weeka after reaching spent more than Yifty-elght in Nebraska. | o, na Mr. Redman, his wife and chil- Rode the Tow Path, dren lived In a covered wagon that the The son of a tailor in a Httie former purchased. Later he bought a vania village and one of ‘elght voke of oxen, and, loading his posses- Utcle Jo# Redman at an early slons into the wagon, started out to look toishift for himself. When 13 up some land, very little of which had age he stirted out to. make to on one Pennsyl- chi'dren, age had years of his own | boen taken by settlers at that time. Be | Mr. Redman was & number of times ap- | family home at 1625 Corby street, where | tween Omaha and west, Florence and a little A tract of 100 acres was found that ploased Mr. Redman, and here he made his pre-omption filing, paying it At the rate of $1.35 per acre with money he borrowed, the interest figuring at the rate of %0 per cent per annum. out on Settled at Saratoam. Shortly after securing title to his lana, Mr. Redman bought & tract in the vicin. ity of Twenty-fourth street and Amos avenue, a town that at that time was known as Saratoga. Here he erected & bullding and started dolng blacksmith work, though, as he frequently afterwar! knowledged, he was not a blacksmith, he blacksmith venturs was not success- ful, and quitting this, Mr. Redman en- | kaged In frolghting between Omaha and He frelghted one or two son- | Denver sons and then returned to his farm, ro- maining there eight years, after which he moved Into Omaha and went into the merchandising business with T B lingwood, the location belng at Sixteenth and Izard streets. And, by the way, this was the first store located on Sixteenth street where dry goods were sold Mr. Redman continued in the mercan- tile business for & number of years and retived when elected to the city council In 1878, serving in that body with Georgs W. Lininger, Dennis Cunningham, Isaac Hascall and Barney Shannon. He was the chalrman of the committee on lights and It was on his resolution that the first gas lamp in the city was located. Dur- ing his incumbency the first sewer in Omaha was lald, it extending from Fours teenth to Eighth street on Jackson. Held Appointive Office. After serving one term: in the eounell, pointed deputy assessor and upon sov- eral occaslons held appointive offices, both city and county. Always active in politics and for years the president of the Fifth Ward Republican club, he sei- dom sought office, séemingly beilng con- tent 10 ald his friends in political cam- palgns, rather than asking anything for himselr, Some twenty-five years ago Mr. man retired from active business Red- and y {after that until his health commenced | man, western Nebraska, and Mrs. Clar . > .0 to fall several months ago, devoted much | ence Bnglish, Winnipeg. With the ex Spr]ng Medlc1ne of his energles to working for the inter- | coption of Mrs. English all the children LAl esta of the FY(th ward and the north [ Were with thelr father at the time of | yooi Gapsaparilin, the G Sood part of the oity, whers he always re | his death. sified. During several summers he had | One son, David C. Redman, who lved | rifier, Is the Best. charge of the boys' swimming pool and &t Harper's Perry, Ia, and Joseph Red- | b bath house at the south end of Carter [man, who lived at Salt Lake, died a | Spring sickness comes in some de- Iake, working without reward. or hope number of years ago. | grea to every man, woman and child of reward. He waa always an advooate | it mlmu .vx‘n-\.v» 2 - 5 ol 0 t of the city t s hat run-<down oon on o o o A e e throust nis atrorts | JUNIOR PLAYERS WiLL eymtam that resvits, SYOQTT SRS ke that the land for Miller park was «..’ HAVE A DRAMA LEAGUE | poverished, devitalized hlood cured for and by | the city Worked for Carter Lake Park. Following up the interest of thelr slders {In the recently Drama le , the younger | It i marked by loss of appetits and that by tired feeling, and in Wmany cases some form of eruption 4 The best way to treat spring sickness Tmmediately after the clowe of the| ., o\ e gocinl Settlement will OFRANIZS | 1o 1o take Hood's Sarsapariiia. Thia Transmississippl exposition Mr. Redman ars} 8| 1n te o Sarsapa: started a campaign looking to the oity the “Junfor Playera” this evenink. The| ;14 raljable famfly medicine purifies, . i g - S sottlement already boasts one drama club, socuring Carter lake and the grounds - > | enriches and revitallzes the blood, 1t | around it for park purposes and a publie | “Junior Plavers” resort. He worked on this recreation | composed of young men and women plan to put on several | fairy plavs in the fall, carrying out the The | | an all-the-year-round alterative and tonle, and is absolutely the best Spring medicine | profec | success crowned his eftorts. o cme, " ooass "':‘h"_ o scropthoires "“,"h':: m:":‘: {work of the Settlement Dramatic 1eAgU® | Go your blood in good condition an S s e of the Fancational Alliance in Ny York. | (O /0" By miay be dangerous, edman was quite an extensive traveler, | The plenlc of the sewing achool classes. | o 7O 0ihy il o U Cde Barsapas but he was always imbued with the 1dea | which was announced for Saturday, has of “See America First," consequently he confined his travels to the country west of the Missour! Unele Joo was a life-long Lutheran and was ons of the charter mombers and or- | ganizers of the Kountze Memorial church of this city, organized In 1858, He was also & member of the Douglas County Assoclation of Nebraska Ploneers, a member of the State assoclation and a member of the Nebraska Historical so- { clety. | Following the death of his firet wite, | | some years later, November 13, 182, | Uncle Joe gmarried Mrs. Elizabeth Has | kell, who survives him, residing in ‘the | | Instead the the sattlement ho Creighton class held Frida: he lived for twenty years or so. lowing the dinner. | Reaides his widow, Uncle Joe Redman | ident of the class, was toastm | s prea- | Other | |fe survived by eleven children, fifteen|atudents who spoke included Paul V.| Wl I H I.r;ndrhndnn and seven great-grandchil-| Duffy. Danlel Dorsey, Bdward ¥ogarty | | Robert M. A. L. Root, | Kelly, Rev. Joseph A. Wels and Prol. A. dren. The children are George L. Redman, Mrs. James P, Redman and Sherman Redman, | Schmitt talked Thoma Omaha; Mrs. Harry Keeline, rmmrn“ Bluffs; B. F. Redman, Salt Lake City,| John Flynn and Utah; Mrs. Clara Balley, Canada; Samuel { Redman, Wray, Colo.; Willlam 8. Red-| program & ohich sive, an heaviness. tobaccos meet— makixfi Havana blend. Tom this way. —once you acquainted. ‘have smoked half a dozen you'll be wanting to a hox of these “modulated” Havan \vanas you with Tom Moores. CIGAR 10¢ Lrrrze Torr 5¢ If you want a short we ean’t say foo for Little Tom. s Try your luck with Tom Moore is the man who has found a cigar he can make a steady diet. Itcan't be an imported Havana which is too expen- cf(;ll-Havanas. if smoked ‘continu- ously, leave a man overloaded with their q So your, “steady diet” cigar must be one in which fragrant Havana and milder the “modulated” oores are all made q It's safe to predict you will stick to Tom Moore And after you keep , y. i your “den"” or office desk. Any dealer can auppl; “They always come back for Moore” Tom MooORE High Collopy | been postooned on account of the weather. | children | mettlement at 9.3 o'clock and come down- town to the movies The Woman's club of the Soeial Settle: | \muu will glve n June party Thuraday at | An interesting pro- | £ran is heing arranged | CREIGHTON HIGH GRADUATES | ATTEND ANNUAL BANQUET will meet school's grad banquet at Hotel evening and enjoyed an interest- | Ing program of speeches and music fol- | Joseph P. Mally or Rev School and class and banjo and mandolin selections by | John Kennebeck prised the musical part of the evenina's | at | rilla, and insist on having it, for noth the | IN& else can take ita place.-~Advertise- e | ment MANY RED CROSS HOSPITALS In the war zone have ordersd Allen's oot-Ease, the antiseptic powder, for use among the convalescent troops. Shaken Into the Shoes or dissolved in the foot-bath, It Rives refreshing rest and prevents the feet getting ti or foot sore. Drug and Department Stores Everywhere sell it. Don't acowpt any substitute. nating Rome songs Coupons Tomorrow! com- | e, e e S 7 T st ) Ao to in the present sit. umh"—'..? there will be is lh“o("::r;f all time for ¢ vy 8 A. to make vast strides. E‘" a1l met busy. t- Now