Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 26, 1915, Page 5

THE BEE: OMAH.\, THURSDAY, AUGUST \ RELIGIOUS FOLK IN workers taxive TrE ~emLy” sunpay oex. || GIRL CENSUS TAKER | " 5itksknr xovestone UN;g:CPEA'flELCETSEfiEJSER | Picnic for Tots at ] SUS—Some women who are actively engaged in making — CITY BNUMERATED the religious roster of Omaha in preparation for the com. bt | 8t. James’' Home to MEETS YIOLENCE} TR (% ST s S| Be Held Thursday ing big revival meetings. will bacome effective at all stations Sep. tember 1. The tickets have all been \ More Than One Thousand Workers, Mostly Women, Taking Count | of Various Beliefs, | Miss Avenell Stickley Locked in| One of First Homes Visited and Threatened. printed and are being dellvered to agents | The annual plento for tne dren of thy wlong the lines 8t. James Orphanage under the auspice With the change in the form of tickets. ' of tha Knights of Columbus, will be h:l; the auditing force at the Omaha head- Thursday. Prior to the plenic the orphe quarters will be Increased by the sddition lads and lassies will start out at o'c m‘»fl of twenty-five clerks, most of them with {, the moming for an automobile ridg families. They come from several points around the city. Following the ride they along the system and this city will be will go to Krug park, where elaborate thelr future homes. plans for an excellent plenic will be car ried out by the committee in charge. Tht THIEVES CUT WIRES ON committee from the Knights of Columbus conaists of Robert Bushman, Felix Me. LAKE STREET THIRD TIME | G thomas Redmond, P. J. Johnson . J. J. Hinchey, Thomas Quinlan, W. H Residents of TLake strest between | paumer, J. W, Welch and 1a McArdle. | | NOT 80 EASY, THEIR VERDICT RELEASED BY POLICE OFFICER To be locked in one of the first |homes which she visited in taking the religious census and threatened with | More than 1,000 workers, the ma- | jority of whom are women, yesterday | took the religious census of Omaha. l It w a part of the Billy Sunday campaign. The city was divided for this purpose into sixteen districts, each { personal violence was the fate of Miss Avonell Stickley, South Side high school student, one of the youngest workers engaged in the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth streeta tele- swith a superintendent. The dll<: work. | phoned po'les headquarters v »nnnvlnv | orniy L hieves ere cutt tricts were divided into sections each | | According to the story she told the .{.: " t'\u m"'u xln \' 'u‘ : . r”!n‘r'::l(*ll‘::i om the street car poles bore with a sectional leader. And the noc-i | police, Miss Stickley was confined in block. Officers were dispatched to the tions were, in their turn, divided into | the home of Mrs. Daugherty, district, but the fellows had made good | other divisions, with a volunteer ( census taker working In each divi- slon, calling at every house in the division assigned to him and noting on blanks, prepared for the purpose, | Forty-second and 8 streets, for more [than an hour. She was released by |a police officer | | Mine Stickley. it was said at her| homes, 4401 Z street, was almost, thelr escape This is the third time within & month that wire has been stolen | from the poles in thia particular nelghbor. | ho. THIRTEEN NOT LUCKY FOR | EveryRoomwitha AVONELL STICKLEY 1.50 to $3 Si the names of all the dwellers in each prostrated by the experience and her et MIKE ROACH. AN ITINERANT Bath gt.uuL i ” e house and their religious status, 1 mother is also sutfering from the ' pim o come and get a crazy girl that | . Neme of the “Taking the rellglous census is not a shock. Mrs. J. F. Stickley gave the she had with her Mike Roach, itinerant, was the thirteenth easy as it was cracked up to be,” was the meneral cpinion expressed by women | following account of the ineldent: My daughter wae overjoyed when the | prigoner to be arralfmed before Judge BostonOysterHouse 4 oliceman arrived and relased her. Rhe A “walve had already | My daughter, who s an active | ™ Foster yostorday. Tw Famousfor Its unexcelledservice, - ;‘-::uaru:?;nn;x(k work, rmn:‘clq:ll_\h(.ll: worker in' the Interdenomtnational | &8 Very lll Tuesday night from the shock | procend A iHim . A e 8 ;.‘.“,‘.w....v Ingdishesandairof gaiety and good cheer. o in oon ouse . \d wo feared n nervous breakdown belne the thirteenth time he had been £ % | church, called at Mrs. Daugherty's home | It be 3 districts close into the downtown neigh- | I taking tho religtous reneus. Mre | Captain Briggs said n compaint will arrested while sofourning in the olty, the Dine in the Dutch Grill et e o £l r v ' ¢ v v The "“fl']hl“"“o . o S acur i Daugherty wes sitting on the. porch|U® filed Inst Mrs. Daugherty magistrate sentenced him nn.m“vd‘-},! o fip g~ BTN stabted to0ed," 8ala cae-hovdswite who | crocheting wome laco and tears were onch thinke it showld have only been Jiay,” sald one housewife who | talitng from her eves. My daughtor was thirteen, according to the law of aver- | touched by the siwht, thinking that the | ASKS POSTMASTER TO FIND | awe« woman was in trouble. She stated her errand, wheh tho weman asked her into] WER FATHER AND BROTHER ‘ RISHNP BRISTOL RETURNS the house. As she walked in, Mrs —_— FROM TRIP TO CALIFORNIA Daugherty locked the door and thrust| , ..o recelved by Postmaster W bar- | — the koy down the front of her dress. Then sotdungher ot o ki she began to upbraid my daughter and, (o0 from Salorma Saphrona Jane Smith | pev. Frank M. Bristel, resident bishop swore at her Dunkel, 1418 Chlcagio street, aska that he |o¢ (he Methodist Epiwcopal chureh, has assist her In attempting to locate Wer piueq trom California, where he de- Much Smaller Than Her Assnilant, | father, Abraham Judson Smith, & man 8 i .wd n series of addremses in interest years old, whom sho has not seem or | o (14 Epworth league I'm going to burn you at the stake heard from since 18, and her brother, | had volumeered for the work. “The tele- | phone just rang and rang after I got! dresmed to start out and then I had to soe the groeer, and the butcher, and the huckster, and the Jaumdry man before I started.” Various Degrees o/ Courtesy. Several workers report doors Blammed in thelr faces by irate men and women who told them “it was none of your busi- | ness which chureh I attend, it any Others reported having met with uni- e e — and thrust red-hot pokers through you,' Arthur John Smith, whom she has not form courtesy. y rthur John Smith, n as not | PH One dear lttle church worker was ap- she cried. ‘I'm going to put you In a geon or heard from since he was 1. He PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS palled to know how few of her neighbors convent where you can't be walking the ja now 40 years old, Her brother was Rilly Hart, split-triek wire chiaf at the streets like the crazy gir! you arve’ last heard of in Ban Francisco. Mra. | whatarn {,“h“""h“ left for a trip to St “My daughter was helpless, as she is| Dunkel was formerly of San Francisco, Louls, from where he ‘\t IIDI much smaller than her assallant. Finally | where she lived with her father and|Osark country to inspect some lan ) o b there, returning in about the woman called a policeman and told | brother L o were church members. % “I don't ask my roomers what their | religlous convictions are,”” was the reply | ‘ of many women keeping rooming houses to queries regarding the affillations of those In thelr homes. Workers assigned to the down-town apartment houses were especially discour- | 4 aged. “We can't expect the clerk to know what church the people attend, and MRS. G we can't reach them ourselves even in the evening, Lecaus most of them go 1 Mra. Nellle Patton saild one woman { told her she “was an old hen and ought Y (4 | to be at home,” when she called. “I ! Hn MA(][() clTY‘ was hurt, but I didn't mind it. I felt [ sorry for her,” sald Mrs, Patton. Two Men Arrested on Suspicion of Pwe Now Dessshes. & Gardener Employ ed Being Implicated in Holdup Special Officer John Zalou and s Chauffeur Joe Baughman of the police By RBV. E- H- Jenks of Dairyman. department captured two more suspects | . . s T in the two Bunday night hold-ups, on Takes His Own Life | norse MARKET ON THE BOOM | the Avery rona shortiy atter noon yes o Sl day. The call oame from a woman r H, Peters, aged 7 years, gardensr for| Carl Piper, Denver, and “Bill" Lynch, dent near Avery that two young men, ‘ Rev, E. H. Jenks, 348 Capitol avenue, |Twenty-fifth and Harrison streets, two | One red-haired, and and both answering was found dead in the barn to the rear |young men who appear to be about 19 in detall the description of (h.; alleged of the residence yesterday with a |years of age, were arrested by Officer | young bandita of Sunday night's oocur- cup containing a mixture of paris green| Crosby last evenink on suspicion of ;@Cfl had emerged from a boxcar near by hia side, Coroner Grosby ls of the |having staged two holdups Sunday even- [Avery and started walking the road to- opinion that the man had beon dead for |ing at 8:30 and 10 o'clack, wards South Omaha. The patrol was some time. Mrs. Jenks discovered the| Andrew Kuches, dalryman at Forty- | rushed to the scene and the two appre- body of the aged groundkeeper iwhen |fifth and V streets, and his son, Andrew, hended just as they were leaving a she went to call him for breakfast. He |Were driving home Sunday evening at | drinking trough near the roadside be- had not beem, seen by any member of |83 o'clock when they were accosted by | tween South Omaha and Avery. They the family since early Tuesday morning. |tWo Youmg men at Thirts-ninth and Q | gave thelr names as ILeonard Peel, 111 health and an aversion to face another [Streets. The two men walked one on | farmer, Galveston, Tex., and Thomas SORGE B. DARR. wav~ muuve Mes. S M Ak HOTELTURPIN IN FHE MRART OF THN OrFY™ 17 POWELL ST. AT MARKET BSAN FRANCISTO SonvENENSE AND COMPONT 5353-.. FLAN, 180 AND. A FREE Auto Bus Meste Traine and to arrive soon. It will be a high-powered machine. - <owATTHE PREVAILING LOW PRICES R IT LATER WHEN YOUARE READY | Il ' TEL.DOUG, SAN FRANCISCO = CWHuLL Co- T ; BELLEVUE HOTEL 316 OMAHA NAT .. BANK BIL.DG. o k7 8??&!}! o room. dfld‘.flhlol from man " Member of xposition Hotel Bureau, winter I8 belleved to have caused the old fellow to take his life. He has no relatives that the Jenks family know of. For the last three years he had made his home with them. Baptist Association to Hold Convention | The Omaha Baptist aseocintion will | eonvene in annual session in the Im- manuel Baptist church of Omaha next Tuesday evening. Tho first session will be a gathering of the young pecple from the elghteen churches of the assoclation. The Rev. B. P. Richardson of Wayne Wwill be the epeaker. Tuesday evening Dr. Howland Hanson, pastor of the First Baptist church of Des Moines, will be the speaker. All the Baptist churches of Omaha will dismiss thelr weekly prayer meetings Wednes- day evening to give all members an op- portunity to hear him, The Omaha Buptist assoclation eovers the territory from Fremont to Tekamah, embracing eighteen churches with a eom- bined membership of 3,000. The Rev, C. M. Bancroft, pastor of the Riverside Baptist church, is the moderator and Miss Mary Mann of this city the clerk. The Immanuel Baptist <hurch will serve dinner and supper at the church for all delegates and friends. All delegates are entertained free. The meetings last until Thursday afternoon. Railroad to Haul Refuse from Omaha City Commissioner Jardine, upon his re- turn from a short trip to Milwaukee, ex- | Pressed a few ideas regarding disposal of refuse, The commissioner is arranging with a raliroad company here to have refuse hauled in cars. There will be six cars, two to be at the loading station, two en route and two at the dumping grounds which will be announced in a few days. It s proposed to make this self-sus taining by charging % cvits a load, the | refuse haulers to pay this charge. This| wili have no connection with house gar-| ge. Mr. Jardine belleves the proposed nicipal work farm will solve the gar- xge disposal question, PHILADELPHIA MAY BUY MEYER SAFETY GUARD ‘The Palrmont Transportation company, Philade'rhia’'s stieet railway company, has heard of the success of the open car safety guard manufactured in Omaha Ly the Meyer Safety Guard company and has sent a request for catalogues and Prices with & view to purchasing equip- ment for fifty cars. The guard manu- factured by the local company is ralsed and jowered by the conductor of the car on which it is installed. Tt is sald to be the most successful device of its kind. Could Not Walk with Rheumatism. A satisfied patient writes: “Sloa An- iment cured my Rheumatism; am grate- ful; I can now walk without pain.” Only (3c. Al druggists.—Advertisement. each side of the car and when Thirty- ninth street was reached ome of the men leapen on the running board of the milk wagon and shoving a revolver in the face of the elder Kuches demanded that both hold up their hands. They refused and the young man struck Kuches twice on the head and several {imes about the body with the butt of his revolver, kuocking him unconsclous. During the melee the son jumped to the ground only to be confronted by the other bandit, who knocked him down and robbed him of $5. Both men es- caped. Charles Xavanaugh saw the milk |wagon passing as the fight was tn | progress and was on the point of In- terfering when he was confronted by a revolver in the darkness and told to “beat it Notification to the police & few moments later brought Captian Anton Vanous, Sergeant Carey and the patrol crew quickly, but both bandite and milk wagon had disappeared. Later Kuches called the police and confirmed Kavanaugh's repert from the home of a nelghbor, The Larson holdup at Maple avenue and Polk street occurred at 10 o'elock, a few hours later, and the police be- lieve that the same two men staged this also. Both Kuches and Larson gave the description of one of the young men as having red hair. Piper has red hair. Search by the police yesterday re- vealed that the young men were well stocked with revolvers, holdup's outfits and other artillery. The case will come up in police court in a few days with County Attorney Magney prosecuting. Wix Tarse Order Rece Captain Lacomb and Lieutenant Cay- row of the French cavalry, stationed at the local horse and mule markets at the stock yards. opened inspection of horses at the South Omaha Horse and Mule barns at the stock yards, in contempla- tion of filling a $1.000.000 war order from their government. Manager Proctor' of the local horse company, who has been in New York City during fhe last tem days negutiating with French officials over the contemplated order, returned Sunday evening with the news that the SRy ® | where he will spend his annual biz sale was a practical cinch Inspection of the hoof stock will be continued for thirty days. The order, if substantiated by the French government in finsl negotiation, will require that 5,000 steeds be sold and delivered within that time. The order is said to involve the sale of more than 25000 horses, and will be a tremendous boost to the Omaha market. Eagles Hold “Fishbake. Members of the South Omaha aerle of Eagles, numbering more than 19, at- tended one of the most successful smok ers of the year last evening at the Hagles] home at Twenty-third and N streets. The occasion was an old-time ‘“‘fish-bake" and smoker, given exclusively to mem- bers of the club. President Jos Walker of the fraternity presided, and the even- Chief's Car S Here, Battalion Chiefs Jack Hasburg and Johnny Coyle of the South Side division ing was passed in informat talks among the members. Plans for the coming year were mentioned of the Omaha fire department are anx- lously awaiting the hour of the coming of the mew “chief's car” that is expected | volvers and as the officers approached Larned, 17, laundryman of Detroit, Mich, Both young men carried blue steel re- made a pretense of covering their men. But the officers were too quick for them and they were disarmed and taken a moment later. One of the two dropped his gun in the water trough when he saw that the officers had him covered Four watches, packages of cigarets and other articles, Imcluding money, were found on them. Prof. L. H. Pennington, professor of forestry and pathology at the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse university, New York., and his wife and daughter, Phyllis, are guests at the home |of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Parsley, 1017 North Twenty-first street, They will visit here several days. Magile City Goasip, Office space for rent in Bee offive, 218 N street. Terms reasonable. Well known location. Tel, South 27, ‘.7;171:0 WM(IHL lBlNQI Merchants' base am will give a 4 Ball it vil, ive o dance at Rushing’s An ice cream soclal will be given at the Lefler Memorial church at Fifteenth and Madison streets this evening at 7.3 o’clock, The condition of George Jacobsen, w! has been seriously ill at his home, reported as somewhat improved. lecture and dance at McCrann wenty-fourth and O streets Wedne evening, August 2. iy Mecknax, laborer, on & charge of break- ing and entering box cars on the rallroad tracks at Twenty-seventh and J streets at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon. Want ads for The Bee may b 4 Tho Bee branch oftice. 29Ik N B, Fotes 2o a word for one time, 14c & word ea~h oy for three days and 1o a word each ay for a week. Prompt and ¢urteous service. The Ladles' Ald soclety of the West street "interdenominational misston wil glve u reception in honor of Rev. Mr. hallcross and family st the Mission, Thirty-eighth snd Q streets. tomorrow evening The pastor was only recently appointed minister to the mission Irvin Howe, popular young and cashier of the Clay, Robin mission company at tha I ; left for the southern part of the tion. He also expects to take fn part of Kansas. Mr. J. J. DeLap, beanch worker at Chicago, has been sent here to relieve Mr. Howe. Mr. DeLap entered on his new work yesterdav, OMAHA MAIL CLERKS HOLD SMOKER FOR DIVISION HEAD The local rallway mafl clerks held & ,lm--ker in the “swing’’ room on the fourth floor of the Federal bull: % last night, the guest of honor being U. 8. Marron, | president of the fourteenth division. Mr. Marron. who has been at a meeting of the division pres'dents in Washington, |18 returning to Denver, but at the inwi- itation of the Omaha clerks stopped off to talk to them. HORLICK’S The Original MALTED MILK Special Officer Fred Paimt of lM’ Miswouri Pacific railroad arrested Peter | tIRAILROAD COLLISIO John Ringling says traction.” “Col. J. 8. Connolly found a gem of purest sensation when he discovered the Head-On Collision as an at- THE GREATEST SPECTACULAR EXHIBITION EVER STAGED IN OMAHA AUTO SPEEDWAY OMAHA LABOR DAY, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2P. M. Gates Open at 12 o’Clock $20,000 ENGINES SMASHED INTO SCRAP IRON B We Dash Together at Sixty Miles an Hour Two 80-Ton Giant Engines With Tenders Attached ADMISSION $1.00 AUTOS PARKED FREE Children Under 12 Years Accompanied by Parent or INCLUDING GRANDSTAND Guardian, Free. 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