Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 22, 1915, Page 7

FROM WAR ZONE 70 GOLDEN WEDDING Miss Grace Zorbaugh, in Charge o(: Y. W. C. A Relief Work in | Paris, Visits Here, | LACK OF MATERIAL BEING FELT Miss Grace Zérbaugh of Paris,| France, general sectretary of lhaf British-American Young Women's Christian assocfation in that eity, | has arrived in Council Bluffs, to be | with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, C.| Zorbaugh, on their golden wedding | anniversary. Miss Zorbaugh fis in| active charge of the assocation relief work in Paris and plans to return October 1. She landed at New York the latter part of July and has spent | the intervening time in the east, con- ferring with American Rellef Clear- ing House officials, through which agency relief supplies are sent to, Europe. | Miss Zorbaugh emphasizes the pit-| iful lack of the wherewithal for re- lef work. “If only American women would realize how much use we could put to articles which they discard, surely they would exert themselves to forward these things to us,’” she exclaimed. | Use 0ld Gloves. | “Ol4 kid gioves, of wnich there ars surely thousands of pairs in this city, we patch together and make wind-proot vests for military aviators and automo bile drivers. Discarded auto curtaina make excellent capes for rainy ‘weather and the isinglass is made into eye pro- testors. We need many things, but espe- clally surgeons' gauze and wool yarn. “The association maintains workrooms | in Parls for destitute French and Bel- | #lan women, paying them 1 franc a day | for making underwear, shirts, warm nr-] gents and sewing on mattress material. We try to furnish at least one mattress for each needy family, for beds are out of the question. “Sfnoe August 1, 1914, when the asso- clation took up the relief work, it has established a free, first-aid home nursing | and medical massage department through | DeSinning with Sunday night, August which 40 women have been fitted for |2 Performance at the Boyd “How Wild service a8 volunteer nurses. A bandage Animals Live,” a collection of marvelous department, from which 50,000 surgical motion pictures of animals from jungles, dressings have been sent to the front. | forest and fleld, taken in all | N parts of the the furnishing of wards In the Amer-| o, Lo, "0 o0 ! ican ambulance, is also work of the asso- | clation. Free classes in Engiish for Bel-| The wonderful possibilities of the mo- glan refugees, a form of moral relief tion plcture camera for the purpose of for enforced idlencss, have been estad-|patural his % lished and the furnishing of absorbent lhenflmcm:‘” e AL AN e paper serviettes, taking the place of John W R' towels and handkerchiefs to soldiers in| Jeh8 W. uskin, a member of the the trenches, 1s another relief measure,” | VArious expeditions sent into all parts ASPALAN o SR en. fa’ WeHi of the earth to secure these wild ani- The Ducheas of Talleyrand, Mius Abby |Mal Views, tells of the many intercsting Morrison; Mrs, Eidrige and Miss Ren- ®nd unique methods resorteq to secure lett of New York and Miss Henrletta | these remarkable pictures. THE OMAHA SUNDAY' BEE Fascinating Wild Life of the Jungles | vade the sandhill country woon, [out to bag prairie chickens as soon ag | these Iakes and there raised their youns | the open meason mets in, September 1 In the far north you will see polar jattracted his attention, and were it mot bears swimming in the Arctic waters | for the fact the operators had killed the while on the fce fi=lde eals disport them- | smell of their bodies they would have selves, not in the way they do in aquar |never returned to civilization. fum tanks, but as they do in the open. | There are hundreds of different sub- One of the most interesting and thrill- | jects shown in the two hours that it |ing plctures is that of a leopard making | takes to run off the five reels and every |a fiying leap upon a jungle fow!, which | one of them is interesting, novel and edu- is sitting on its nest. The habits of this | cational. You will learn more about ani- treacherous animal are very clearly mal life in their nattve baunts in the shown as he tortures the jungle fowl. two hours than you could learn by read- After racing and rushing up and down | ing books of natural history for a solid {the hill with it the leopard finally rolls |l month. In the words of the reviewer of over exhausteq and drops the fowl. Sud- |the Boaton Transoript who wrote: “I came |@enly the leopard springs to his feet, ap- | to the theater expecting to be bored and proaches the top of the hill, arching his | to remain helf an hour, but I stayed back and tall and is ready to make a | through the whole performance and was spring. The elinking of the camera has | very sorry when it ended.” Thaw of Pittsburgh are among promi-| e nent Americans who are active in relief | . work at the assoctation headquarters, Organlzer of the according to Miss Zorbaugh. | Miss Zorbaugh Is a former American | newspaper woman andn now edits “The | Omaha Grain Firm | Coyotes Howl to Sues Wabash Road AUGUST Mesgenger,” which is printed in English ea¢i month in Parls. Since the war there has been delay In the {ssue because of the dearth ot printers, most of whom have enlisted. Miss Zorbaugh brother, betore plans to visit her her return abroad. Rumor Bricklayers in Omaha May Strike * for Five-Cent Raise The bricklayers of Omaha are still hag- Bling for their raise of 5 cents an hour in w.ges, and since the meeting they held Tuesday evening it is persistently rumored that they have decided to strike September 1 if they do not get it The bricklayers themselves are talkative in the matter. Early in the season the bricklayers were asking for some concessions along with the other allled bullding trades. The contractors held a big meeting at the Commercial club one day and decided to grant none of the conceasions asked. Among them was the recognition of the demands of the Allled Buflding Trades Conference, which conference wanted tlw bullding and holsting engineers recog- nized as union men and pald union wages, When the contractors at that time re- fused to yleld the whole matter was ap- parently dropped for the time. not ‘While September 1 {s considered a queer | time of year for bricklayers to be strik- ing and asking increases, it is sald that they expect a late fall and look for work in their line to continue well into the | ‘winter, Body of Omaha Lad Found at Falls City The body of é-year-old Virtie Hun- berger of 1748 South Ninth street has been found in the river at Falls City and is being held b ythe ecoroner of that town, according to information received by the chief of police The boy was out in a boat with his brother at the foot of Hascall street nearly three weeks ago. He lost his bal- ance and fell into the water. The body will be brought to Omaha for burial. Services in Five City Parks Today' In charge of the open-air service at the parks will be Rev. F. T. Rouse at Hans- com park, Rev. John Hawk at Riverview, Rev. M. V. Higbee at Florence, Rev. C N, Dawson at Miller, Rev. J. R. Beard at Fontenelle, Rev. Vaclav Cejnar will preach in Bohemian at Riverview at § > m TRIES TO SELL WATCH HE HAD BOUGHT FOR BEST GIRL Because William Barker of Holtville, Cal, quarreleq with his sweetheart and left home he was arrested in Omaha Fri- day. Tt seems that Willlam had pur chased a watch end presented it to the girl, who, following the misunderstand- ing, returned the present Arriving In Omaba and being in need of ready money Barker was taken by de- tectives on South Tenth street as he was trying to sell the timeplece. The offi- cers, thinking it might be stolen prop- erty, were foreed to arrest him, but he was discharged upon relating the cir- rematances to Polioe Meei-tet: W atay M. Zorbaugh, at Valley, Neb., | Sunday Campaign is Most Busy Man | .Something of the strenuous life led by |the Rev. John W. Welsh, advance or- ganizer of the “Blily"’ Sunday campalgn, speaking for today. Here it is 9:90 0. m., address to the men of West- minster Presbyterian church 10:30, preaches at Hanscom Park Metho- dist church 12 noon, address to the men. at First Methodist church, 3 p. m., conference of the superintend- {ents of districts at Young Women's Christian association. | 3:30 p. m., meeting of the 1,200 religlous census takers at Young Women's Chris- tian assoclation. €:30 p. m., speaks at Third Presbyte- rian church 8 p. m, speaks at union meeting of all the Benson churches. Monday evening Dr. Welsh will address | @ meeting of all the Sunday school super- |intendents and teachers of Greater {Omaha. | Friday evening he addressed a union | meeting of the Councll Bluffs churches {In the First Congregational thurch. Saturday noon he addressed a meeting of the Gidecns at the Young Men's Chris- tlan association bullding. Aside from these public speaking dates he is continually busy during his wak- ing hours on the multitude of detais incident upon beginning the campaign. | | Three Robberies in the North End the Same Night As M. London was closing his grocery at 1902 North Twenty-sixth atreet Fri- {day night a short, stocky negro held him {up at the point of a revoiver and took {816 from the casw swgister. Mrs. London entered the place of business while the holdup was taking place and In turn was covered by the weapon and requested to keep perfectly still. She screamed and | started to run, when the negro opened fire, but fortunately mone of the show struck her. A man answering the same d attempted to hold up J. Brick, 2202 Nineteenth street, at Twenty-second and | Grace strects. Brick grasped the barrel lof the weapon, but the negro finallv | wrenched loose, and striking his victim jon the head ran and made good his get- laway. J. J. Spellman's store at Seventeentl and $10 worth of tobacce stolen. A negro was seen loitering about the spot shortly be- fore the robbery NEWSIE SELLING OLD PAPERS IS ARRESTED | Barney Altman, a former Omaha news boy, about 3 years of age, who last fall was arrested and served ten daye | in the city ja'l for selling old coples of {the Omaha Bee as extras, was agnir cavght selling old coples of the Lincol» News on the streets as extras Friday ht. The eirculation manager of the ser he was selling secured the serv- ¢ and the man wae taken In. FHowever, he was lot go after rrendering h's papers. Altman's scheme was to wait until after the regular ev- of the papers had been sold and other newsboys wers off the strect and then he would appear with the stale coples and announce somie startling plece of news and the papers would go fast — | A “For Bale” ad will turn secend-hand furniture into cash. can be galned from his schedule of public | Nicholas streets was entered and | The Omaha Elevator compeany has brought suit against the Wabash rafiroad | for damages amounting to $2,188.80, charg- | Ing that the Wabash overcharged them | on a shipment of twenty-four cars of | oats and fourteen cars of corn sent to Alabama. The elevator company alleges that rate sheets were published by the | { Wabash giving the rate as less than that | which was charged, and that the ship- | jment was made with the understanding | that the lower rate was In effect. The | amount of damages asked is the differ- | ence between the rate published and the | rate paid. Wheat Continues to Fall in Price Reports of more cancellations of orders on wheat contracted for export sent prices down 2 to 4 cents farther on the Omaha market, the new crop receipts selling at $1.01 to $1.10 and the old at $1.20 There were thrity-three carloads on sale. Corn was off one-half to a cent. sel.ing at 734 to 5% cents. with thirty carloads { on the market. There was a slump of % to 2 cents | the price of oats, the selling prices being around 36 to 39 cents per bushel. Receipts were nineteen carloads. Retailers Favor Closing Sunday Maybe all grocery stores and meat | markets will have to close all day on Sundays by rule of a city ordinance. | The Omaha Retall Grocers' assoclation is | tn favor of such an ordinance. At a special meeoting Friday night, held at the Swedish auditorfum, & committes of | five was aprointed to circulate a peti- | tion for such an erdinance. | FLYNN TAKES MEXICAN | TO COLORADO MARSHAL | United States Marshall Flynn leaves | Monday for Denver to return to the Denver marshall a captured forger who was secured by a deputy marshall in Baird. The forger gives his name as Florencig Vald! & Mexican, and is charged with having forged a name on & postal money order, cashing the same in Colorado. Judge T. C. Munger has issiied an order to return him to the Colorado marshall, ——ee Keep Goats Awake, but to No Avail There is consternation tn the soe at Riverview park. Twelve goats have joined the animal colony and the other animals are turning up their noses in contemptuous manner. Commissioner Hummel likes goats. He belleves they are the most democratic of animals, because they yill eat any- thing without complaining and are triendly. The coyotes séem to be plqued on ao- count of the arrival of the new members of this animal household. Friday night the coyotes howled incessantly just to keep the goats awake, but the goats slumbered on, unperturbed. BEE BU'LDING BECOMING MORE POPULAR EVERY DAY Evidence of the popularity of The Bee building is shown every day by the the way its rooms and offices are kept filled. The latest evidence of the pop- ularity of thia buflding, the first of the ble morern office bu'ldings to be erected in Omabn. was brought to notice Fyi- day when the c'ty hall cat deserted that bullding and brought her four kittens to the Bee bullding to make her home. She 4ld not give any reason for mbving, but Amply brousht her tamily, one by one to her new home, ) e DaBernu FBans® SANATORIUM Lo Tk This institution is the only one in the central west with separate buildings situated in their ow ample grounds, yet entirely dis tinct, and rendering it possible to classify cases. The one buiding being fitted for and devoted to the treatment of non-contagious and non-mental diseases, no others be- ing admitted; the other Rest Cot- tage being designed for and de- voted to the exclusive treatment of select mental cases requiring for a time watchful care and spe- clal nursing. Can You Remember This? A. HOSPE CO., 1513-1515 Douglas St. Come to Our Remode o 1015 sandhills that the chicken crop is the best In years, that the birds are large and fat As the open season on Aucks and geese opens | on the same date, most of the huntere will go prepared birds. The sand hill country lakes are assertod coverad with ducks walting to The old birda nested around " counties in the ‘Abrzitha,m Ru;f is Released on Parole HAN FRANCISCO, Aug. M.—Abraham Ruef, once a power in San Franclecy | politics, serving a fourteen-year sentency for bribing a San Francisco supervisor, was paroled today from San Quentin penitentiary by the State Board of Prison Directors. Prairie Chickens Numerous and Are Also Large and Fat| An asmy of Omaha hunters will to shoot these be shot to be in- going Word comea from Cherry and other| Rent houses quick with a Bee Want Ad Buy Now or Never The END Draws Near of This Forced Piano and Player Piano Sale Notwithstanding the heavy sales of the past week, we still need more room for Fall Shipments, and rather than rent additional ware- rooms at great expense, we have decided to tho prices still deeper on over 100 High Grade Pianos and Pluyer Planos. Our 1916 Pianox are arriving daily—hence our desire to clear our floors, Select yours tomorrow from these high grade makes. Hardman, Steger & So ‘s, Emerson, McPhail, Lindeman & Sons and Schmoller & Mueller Pianos and Player Pianos Selected Bargains In Used Pianos and Player Pianos for This Week #550 A. B, Chase Upright . 400 Emerson Upright . 600 N(rln“m{ Upright . 500 Weher Upright . .o 1,100 Chickering & Sons Grand 900 A. B, Chase Grand . #5350 Weber Grand . O. Fisher Player 50O S8-Note Player .. o 050 Wheelock Planola Plano ..... 400 Steger & Sons Upright e | 000 Choraltone Player . Make Your 0 rms—FREE Stool—FREE Scar Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co. Steinway and Weber Representatives 8500 Vose & Sons Bquare . ... 200 Root & Son Upright .. 200 Small Size Upright 500 Chickering & Sons Upright . . ... 350 Schmoller & Mueller Upright , .. 250 Vose & Sons Upright 300 Ivers & Pond Upright 325 Gramer Upright . 300 Schmoller & Mueller Upri 850 Kurtaman Upright oy 1311-13 Farnam Investors --- Homeseekers --- Builders ATTENTION FOR LALE—Houses, Lots, Lands; all MUST be SOLD— sacrificed regardless of value by ORDER of COURT to CLOSE an ESTATE. Here they are—see them! HOUSES — LOTS — LANDS 3510 Leavenworth St. 3564 Leavenworth St. 718 South Thirty-fifth Two lots on northwest corner of Thirty-fifth and Leavenworth; fourteen sightly lots near Turner Boule- vard, bounded by Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth streets, Leavenworth and Mason streets; also— One hundred and sixty (160) acres near Brady Island in Lincoln County, Nebraska, and— One hundred and sixty (160) acres near Neligh in Antelope County, Nebraska. Will be sold at Public Auction at the East door of the Douglas County Court House, for Cash to the Highest Bidder, on the 28th day of August at 10 A. M. LEGAL DESCRIPTION section fifteen (15), township fourteen (14), north of range twenty-six (26), west of the 6th P. M., situate in Lincoln county, Nebraska. Also the west half (W, %) of the north- west quarter (N. W, %4) of section twenty (20) and the west half (W. %) of the southwest quarter (8. W. %) of section seventeen (17), township twenty-six (26), north of range six (6), west of the 6th P. M., situate in Antelope county, Nebraska. Sald sale to remain open one hour. Dated July 224, 19165, JOHN F. MORIARITY, Referes. Lots seven and eight (7 and 8) block fourteen (14) and lot seven (7), block thirteen (13), lsaac & Belden's Addition to the city of Omaha; the west 45.6 feet of the enst 631 feet of lot sixteen (16), Bart- lett's Addition to the city of Omaha; lots six (6), seven (7), elght (8), nine (9), ten (10), eleven (11), twelve (12), fifteen (15), seventeen (17), eighteen (18), nine teen (19), twenty (20), twenty-one (21), and twenty-two (22), Doll’s Place, an ad- dition to the city of Omal all of the above described property being situate in Douglas county, Nebraska, Also the northeast quarter (N. E. %) of For Further Information, See JOHN F. MORIARITY, Referee or F. S. DOLL 1017 City Nat’l Bank Bldg. Phone Douglas 4508