Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 18, 1915, Page 6

-‘, ) . the show association met at the Commer- Rave Root Privt I—Now Bencon Prese Wiectrio fane, $7.80. Rurpess-Orandea ¥. 8. Mowsll, recent United States at- torney, located offices at 776-81 Brandels Theater Bldg., entrance 1Tth or 1th Sts. Meduoe Insuranoe—The city council committee of the whole will consider the proposition of reducing the fire insurance protection of the Auditorim from $100,00 to $25,000. “Today's OComplete the various maving pleture theaters often For Safety Pirst in Life Insurance see W. H. Indoe, general agent State Mutual Life Assurance Co. of Worcea- ter, Mass.. one of the oldest, 71 years, and best companies on earth. To Remove Towsr—The city clerk has been directed by the city council to advertise for bids for the removal of the tower of the city hall, the tower having been condemned as unsafe. More Dressing Rooms—-Commissioner) Hummel announces he expects to have additional dressing room facilities at the municipal beach ready for use Saturday. The old dressing rooms have been dupli- cated. Additional checkers will be en- gaged. Refused to Pay for Meal—John Rodine of Fremont entered Ed Maurer's cafe at Thirteenth and Farnam streets and after consuming victuals to the total value of $2.10 refused to bring forth the coin. He was arrested with quickness and dis- patch Order Building Bemovals—The city couneil ordered the removal of old and dilapidated flats at 413-415-419-421 South Nineteenth street, owend by the Sterling Realty company. These bulldings are thirty-five years old and were erected by M. F. Martin. War of Nations to Open This Evening On New Fair Grounds The “War of Nations” dia not show last night on the Douglas county fair grounds mear Krug park because of the rain, but this evening will be Omaha night and all tickets issucd for last night will be honored tonight. The show got in yesterday from St. Louis, wheve it has been having a most successful run for three weeks. The stage is all set and the fireworks all kept dry for the big show tonight In which over 30 people take part. | The show has been placed in front of the big grandstand on the fairgrounds, which seats 6,00 people, so that all may | have & good view of the reproduction of | some of the scenes now being enacted in the war zone of Europe. Spies will be hung and a village, similar to some of | those in northern France will be sacked | and burned, At the end $1,000 worth of | fireworks will be burned, including some | of the magnificent set pleces for which the Pain people are famous. Omaha May Not Have |-t . twencinres 1916 Motor Car Show ¢ X Omaha may not hold an eleventh an- nual aytomobile show. Stockholders in cial olub at noon and decided to post- pone any plans to hold a show until some detinite facts regarding the anouncement of new modeis of cars was learned. At present automobile manufacturers are announcing new models at all and any times. Under present conditions a show would merely be & useless expense. The association decided to ask the oco- operation of the various show assoclations in asking that manufacturers announce but one line of new models a year, pre- ferably some time during the winter. It was’'decided to hold no show during Ak-Sar-Ben or the fall, as was suggested by some. Aged Man Loses His Memory in Accident W. H. Henry, aged 81 years, was in- jured when a buggy in which he was driving was overturned at Fortieth and Dodge streets, when struck by a Far- nam street car. Aside from recalling hie name, age and the fact that he is a pastor, Henry has lost his memory and cannot tell his home address or the name.of any relative. He Is belleved to have a nephew living in Omahs and a son residing in the country about ten miles west of the city. Henry was at- tended by Dr. Charles Zimmerer and taken to the Lord Lister hospital. Conducts His Own Defense in Suit George 5. Hill, who walks on crutches on account of the amputation of one leg, conducted his own defense in & divorce suit brought before District Judge Bears by Mrs. Annle E. Hill. He cross-examined ler after she had related details of his alleged cruel treatment of her. Mrs. Hill, who answered rather briefly the queigions addressed to her by her attorney a Judge Sears, returned answers considerable length to her husband’s questions. She testified that Hill had beaten her and choked her, Relief from Acute Rheumatism. John H. Gronx, Winchester, N, H., writes: “1 suffer from acute rheurhatism | and Sloan's Liniment always helps | auickly. 2c. All druggists.—Advertise- | ment. NEW YORK SINGERS TO STOP HERE HALF HOUR One hundred and fifty members of the Maennerchor of New York will be in the city thirty minutes Thursday afternoom, arriving on a special train from the west, over the Burlington at 2:% o'clock, en route home from a trip to the Pacific coast. While members of the Omaha Maennerchor will not make any attempt to entertain the New York singers, owing to their short stay in the city, they will meet them the Burlington depot. Despondency Du gestion. “About three months ago when I was suffering from indigestion which caused proved to be the very thing I noeded, as one day's treatment relieved me greatly. I used two botties of Chamberlain's Tab- lety and they rid me of this trouble. Ob- tainable everywhere. All druggists. A —— A “For Sale” ad will wrn second-hand furniture fato cash. HE BEK: | SOUTH SIDE PIONEER DIES OF STROKE OF APOPLEXY. Nebraska KENNETH MURPHY IN TROUBLE AGAIN Paroled Convict May Have to Go Back to Prison Becaunse of Joyride Episode. AUDITOR INTERPRETS NEW LAW (From a Staft Correspondent) | LINCOLN, Aug. 17.—(Special Telegram.) ~Kenneth Murphy, the young man con- victed with others of the murder of Charles Sellers in Cherry county, and | who was paroled by Governor Morehead about two years ago after a number of Lincoln people had taken an interest in him, may have to return to the peni- tentiary, as he has been implicated with | George Cariton and Ernest Elrod, for- mer inmates of the penitentiary, in steal- | ing automobiles for the purpose of taking | Joy rides. { Murphy, after his parole, attempted to | take & course in the University of Ne- ! brasks, but was not met with a joyful | reception. The line was drawn against | JOSEPH O. EASTMAN OMAHA, WEDN 11850, and has become mummified. him because he was a paroled conviet The Wesleyan university authorities were not so particular and he has been attending that school. at Road Meeting. Morehead is attending a good roads meeting at eBatrice today. Tomorrow he goss to Carroll, attend an old settlers’ reunion. He probably will not attend the meet- ing of governors next week in Boston. Wives Must Sign, Also. State Auditor Smith has decided the Nichols law which provides that all as- signments of wages must be signed by the wife as well as the husband applies likewise to state warrants. This will mean that all Institution employes, de- partment clerks and university employes who have been in the habit of assigning their warrants to banks will have to have the same signed by their wives, Ia, to May Have Mummy Apple. A mummified apple of the Malden Blush variety, has been offered Becretary Mellor of the state fair for exhibition at | the coming meeting, but on the under- standing that he become personally re- sponsible for its return to the owner. Secretary Mellor has written the owner that he would appreciate the apple for exhibition pu but as he has so many and varied duties at the fair he cannot become personally responsible for its safety. The apple was picked from a tree in Madison county, Ind., in August, 1t is owned by A, W. Nelson of Sutton, Neb., who picked it for his uncle, who later died. Issune Warehbuse Permits. The State Rallway comumission today issued the first public warehouse permits Notes from Heatrice. BEATRICE, Neb, Aug. 17.—(8pecial.)— A thief entered the Model laundry da cleaning plant Sunday night and stole a suit of clothes and a raincoat. A terrific rainstorm visited the mnorth- ern part of Gage county Sunday night. In Hanover township three inches of water fell and a number of bridges were washed away. Between Cortland and Lincoln there was a deluge and creeks and draws were flooded. The Unlon Pa- cific motor from Lincoln Monday had a hard time getting through on account of the high water. The committee having in charge the soliciting of names for the petitions for & new county jail reports that it has secured about 2,300 signers. About 3,800 names are needed in order to insure the erection of the proposed building. Chautaunqua Successfaul. HOLBROOK, Neb., Aug. 17.—(Special Telegram.)—The chautauqua which ended in Holbrook yesterday was well attended and the program for each day's session was g0od and was better than the Com- mercial club had expected. The club came out financlally to the good and has con- tracted for another chautauqua for next year, Homecoming at Brownville. STELLA, Neb., Aug. 17.—(8pecial.)~The annual homecoming at Brownville will be Friday, August 20. Music will be fur. nisheq by the Auburn band and the Brownville orchestra. There will be ball sames in the afternoon, balloon ascen- sions and free attractions during the day and in the evening will come the band concert and the moving pictures. the hair apart and esinol Ointment into Joseph O. Eastman, aged 70 years, clvil war veteran, thirty years resident of the Magic City and seventeen years assistant inspector in the bureau of animal indus- |try at the South Side stock yards, died Monday evening at 7 o'clock at his home, {1482 North Twenty-third street, South Side” of a stroke of apoplexy. Beventeen years after birth in rural New Hampshire Bastman enlisted in the | Ninety-third regiment of the Illinols | volunteer infantry of the Union army | and served three vears in the civil war, Twice wounded, he participated in several battles. He also served under General Grant In his famous Vicksburg campaign, and was one of the army that marched under General Sherman ‘‘from Atlanta to the sea.” After peace had been de- clared he marched in the grand army review through the Carolinas to Wash- ington. Eastman came to South Omaha in 18% after he had managed a mercantile firm in Eesex, Ia., for several years. Here he Set up a grocery store and remained in business until seventeen years ago, when he was appointed assistant inspector to the bureau of animal industry. He Is survived by his wife, one son, A, M. Eastman, Sloux City; one daughter, Mrs. M. Bratton, South Side, and two grandchildren, Louise and Ted, South Side The funeral will be held Thursday at 2 p. m. Rev. J. W. Kirkpatrick of the First Methodist church will officiate, assisted by Rev. R. I. Wheeler. Members of the Phil Kearney post of the grand army, of which he was a prominent member, will attend. | » Tuesday, August 17, 1815, Wool blankets, were $6.00 and Wool blankets, were $5.00 and Wool filled blankets, were $4.00, now $2.98, Bath robe blankets, were $3.00, now $1.98. Cotton bed blankets, were $2 and $2.50, now $1.69, Cotton bed blankets, were $1.00 Oross Fox, Muff and Scarf Set . Isabella Fox Muff | PSRN (P=====S==SSSSgtore Hours 8:30 A, M. to 5 P, M. Saturdays till 9 P. M. BURGESS-NASH COMPANY. o, Unusual Values in Qur Second Annual Cotton bed blankets, were $1.75, Cotton bed blankets, were $1.50, now 98e¢. Cotton blankets, were 76¢, now 49c, Luxurious Fox Furs--August Sale Affords Extreme Values 1 do with it thay will B0 oot ress " o with it It ADAME Fashion decrees fox furs for 1915 and 1916 | idiy “'odnud.!.’ PL.Jve 0 and without a doubt beautiful fox furs of every kind uen'- Bathing Suits ... 1, will be in high favor this season with ‘omen's Bathing Suits } ¥ good dressers. The speclals we feature '& Children's Bathing Suits | Price Wednesday represent a saving of 20% to 33% % to those who purchase now. Nebraska Guardsmen Prepare Senator Holbrook For Encampment; May Be Candidate Unon State Ticket) I Nebraska ‘} | (From a Staff Correspondent.) \ LINCOLN, Aug. 17.—(Special.)—Head- quarters of the Nebraska National Guard | e b St Cob was busy today preparing for the en-| | ;NooLN, Aug. Th—(Special)—State E“‘ITI‘D::"‘I‘ l;’ :""(:‘.":" b:‘::;"‘:‘“ "::"; Senator W. D. Holbrook of Dodge county w ne ' { THunday P £t have|MOMInation for Neutenant governor, mc- ',\:::":::“’m":" e h"}“':_n:"“::mm"n: cording to friends who conversed with - | hm on poiitics o, o nr® | The senator has been in Lincoln several much pleased with the success of that|, ., and has appeared to be much in- meeting. They hobe to pull off & WIS | terested in the situation from a political cessful encampment of the Fifth at Chete. | yi\napoint. He believes that while there Again Out of Bank son all the support needed in the present warlike situation, it does not extend so far as an endorsement of the democratic administration along business lines. SUPERIOR, Neb., Aug. 1i.—(Special| Senator Holbrook served In the senate Telegram.)—The Republican river went|in 18%, in the house in 1897, and again in out of its banks again today, | the trade from south of town. The farmers living in the overfiowed portion held a conference here today with cutting off | the senate in 1899 and 1907 the county commissioners and they have consented to have a competent engineer come and see What ia the best way to stop the overflow and then take all pre-| cautions to stop it it possible. This is the dourteenth time strice May 16 that the| river has overflowed the bottoms may be a candidate for the republican PLAN TO RUN DR. HALL FOR THE GOVERNORSNIP! (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Aug. 17.—(Speclal)-N. 7J.| Ludi, postmaster at Wahoo, called on the | secretary of state today and mecured the | necessary blanks to place the name of Dr. P. L. Hall of Lincoln on the primary ballot as a democratic candidate for 'n\'-! ernor. | Mr. Ludi claimed to be representing B ©O. Webber, county chalrman of Saunders county, and not himself, being prohibited as a postmaster from taking an active part in politics. Funeral of Mrs, Plumb. FALLS CITY, Neb, Aug, 17.—(8pecial) ~The body of Mre. Rachel Plumb was brought to this city for burial on Mon- day evening from York, Neb., where she died Sunday morning ot the home of her | nephew, Dr. Plumb, Her death was oaused by tubercular trouble. She had a great deal of property in this county, which will go to thesnephew, two sl in California and two slsters v the western part of Nebraska. The funeral was held from the Methodist church at 3 o'clock this afternoon, | THE ANDERBILT TEL BLAIR, Neb, Aug. annual session of the Washington County institute will convene in the assembly room of the High school bullding in Blair Monday morning, August 23, and continue in session five days. Superintendent A, E. Fisher of Aurora, Dr. J. A. Beattle of Lincoln and Prof. W. H. Clemmons of Fremont are on the program. THIRTY FOURTH STREET AT PARK AVENUE NEWYORK Ah FHote! Desighed go ./qupeaf :sz’g': Conservative SUMMER RATES WALTON H.MARSHALL Manager Like the Rain in Nuckolls. SUPERIOR, Neb, Aug. 1 8peoial ‘Telegram.)—Ninety-five-hundredtha of an inch of rain fell here last night and was much appreciated by the farmers as it will put the ground in good condition for fall plowing. EVERYBODY'S STORE" STORE NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, one Douglas 187, A good many women seem to think that Fels-Naptha is just soap, and use it as they would any other soap. This is like paying someone to do your wash and then doing it yourself. does all the hard work for you. The naptha in combination dis- solves the grease and loosens the dirt—don’t have to hard rub. Just as wonderful for all household cleaning. flOHOHOflOflOHOHOflOBOflOHOBOflbfloflcmfln i BEFORE BUYING g | i e Paints, Varnish, Stains, Enamels Paint Specialties, Painter’s Supplies Call at 1812 Farnam Street or Phone Douglas 7018 C. R. COOK PAINT CO. QUALITY THE BEST, PRICES RIGHT OIS0 01 0rI O IO EIOEIOEIO IO K O IO I OEIOEIOEIO! The Business-Like Chew _ . ‘%1 chew ‘PIPER’ because it's good business,” says the man of affairs. ‘‘Its mellow, juicy sweetness is delicious, and its whole- someness helps keep my system in working order.” The lively, tuty, benefi- cial effects of nature’s rich- est tobacco are yours in August Sale of Blankets OOL has constantly becn advancing and will probably i v advance more during the coming months. Realizing this we bought the best blankets obtainable when the market was at its lowest price-ebb dnd as we bought so we offer to you. A partial Mst: Wool blankets, Auto and slumber robes, were $9.00, now $4.08, were $10,00 and | Cotton blankets, were 76¢, now BOc each. $12, now 87.50 | Crib blankets, were 50c, now 20¢ each. $6.50, now $4.75. | | $5.50, now 83.96. | | $4 Comforler in Bedding Sale $2.95 Very gpecial, comforter, size 6x7, French sateen covered, scroll stitched, filled with pure white cotton, best quality, well made and regulurly worth $4.00; very specially priced 95 in August Bedding Sale, at . . 32. Timely Sale of Bath- ing Suits at % Price EVERY Mh!:lm—-ho-l has been given notice to va. now $1.25. to $1.26, now 75¢c. Wash Co—Basement. These $5 Corsets ;;-: Wednesday at $2.98 moo A REMARKABLE value. There's a variety of styles sulted to all figures, either lace front or back, in medium or long, all new clean stock, shell pink or white brocade, four or six hose support- ers attached. Wednesday special at $15.00 to The very garment Gray Fox Set T Burgess-Wash Co.—Second Vloor, ! | Wednesday--Our El;tire Stock of Sum- mer FURNITURE at Exactly % Price HIS sale of summer fibre furniture is very opportune because it comes = at a time when you can still get several weeks of use and any plece is ideal for the sun room. Some of the specials: Bewing rocker, was $5, now $4 | Fern box, was $7.50, now $8.75 Fern basket,'was $3.90 . .$1.95 Fern stand, was $5, now $2.50 Rocker, was $10.40, now $5.20 Rocker, was $12.40, now $6.20 Rocker, was $5.40, now. .$2.70 | Square table, was $4 now Settee, was $12.50, now $6.85 $2.50 Chair, was $9.45, now . .84.95 | Square table, was $7.40, now Chair, was $3.60, now .. $1.95 |at....... oa vk o 0N 5, now. .8$8.00 | Drop leaf table, was $9, $4.50 Burgess-Nash Co—Third Fioor. =0 h}f needs for bathing, sp! ment. Burgess-Nash Co.—Second Floor. Rocker, was $7.45, now $8.78 Desk, was $10.95, now. .$5.50 Porch basket, was $4.10, $2.00 Table, was $6.26, now . .$2.15 PIBER Heidsiack Chewing Tobacco—Champagne Flaver There’s an appetizin, tang to the famous “Cgun- pagne Flavor” of “PIPER” — a zestful relish that adds another joyous tickle to the rich tobacco taste. Chew the highest type of chew- ~ == ing tobacco in the world, That's “‘PIPER.” v —. t0DACCO dealer’s name, we’ll send a full- ICATING LIQUOR ~ ALCOHOL 4% OMAHA, EB. Y TRV Willow Springs Beer HAS STOOD THE TEST OF TIME No better beer brewed than ‘‘Stars and Stripes’’ and ‘‘Old Time’’ Order a case for your home, HENRY POLLOCK LIQUOR HOUSE, Retail Distributors. Telephone Douglas 2108, WILLOW SPRINGS BRWG. CO. Telephone Douglas 1306,