Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 2, 1915, Page 7

| | .1. ogram bsewater school. |l ‘ it} list of unsecured claims. —-‘v—m automobile concern. v X [ BRIEF CITY NEWS Wedding Rings—Bdholm, Jewsler. Lighting Fixtures—Burgess-Granden. Ave Root Print Tt—Now Beacon Presa. For automohile insurance and llability bonde, see J. H. Dumont, Keeline Bidg John N. Baldwin moved his law office to room 608, Keeline building. Telephone Tyler 181, Hold Ohureh Basar—Friday and Satur- day of this week the women of the Iirst Methodist church will hold a Christmas bazar In the Lyric theater building. ‘“Today’s Movie Program” classified section today. It appears in The Bee EXCLUSIVELY. Find out what the va- | rlous moving picture theaters offer. Seaks Bankruptoy—A petition in volun- tary bankruptcy was filed by Frank Barney of Walthill, Neb. Lisbilities are stated as 30,460 and assets of $13,247 Gallon is Fined—Steve Gallon, charged with carrying concealed weapons, was fined $10 and costs when arraigned in police court. Gallon maintained he was carrying the weapon for protection | The State Bank of Omaha, corner Six- teenth and Harney. Pays FOUR per cent on time deposits and THREE per cent on savings accounts. All deposits in this | bank are protected by the depositors guarantee fund of the state of Nebraska. Give Musioal Program—Pupils of ¥lor- ence Basler-Palmer will present a musical | this evening at the Edward This event will be one of a serics arranged by Eunice Enso supervisor of extension work in the public schools. All are invited to the musicale Show Cans to Jury—Eleven tin cans were exhibited to a jury in District Judge Day's court in a lawsuit in which the trustee for the Omaha Can company and the Florence Canning company are plain- tiff and defendant. The former com- pany is suing for a balanoe of purchass price and the latter alleges that ‘cans which it bought were defective Howell Tells How Much Water Board Has Saved for City| General Manager Howell of the mu- nicipal water plant announces that his books show that for the three years of munieipal ownership, ending June 30, 1915, patrons pald $450,000 less for water, in ad- dition to having to their present credit| a fund of nearly $1,000,000 set aside for depreciation, sinking fund and surplus, In other words, Mr. Howell would have it that by reason of municipal ownersh!p | the people are $1,450,000 better off than they would have heen under private nership. He makes this further statement: | “From 1%7 to 1912 the earnings of the Omaha Water company increased from | 21 to $2442 per pear per service, exclud- | ing the stock yards and packing houses. | 1'rom 1912 to 1915 the average earnings per | service decreased from $24.42 to $16.65." Omaha's First Snow of Winter is Light Omaha's first snow of the season fell yesterday, belng very light and lasting | wlicut halt an hour. According to the morning reports to the 1nroads it is winterish over the entire | country from the river to the Rocky mountains Out in Nebraska tempera- turcs range from 20 to 28 degrees above zero. At numerous places during the | night there were snow flurries, but no! general storm. A high northwest wina swept over the state. NEW CHURCH TO HAVE SPACE FOR INSTITUTIONAL WORK|oia anugnter, Maracaret, his paven Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Offerman, 213 | No, it's not a parsonage, despite popular | North Twenty-fifth street, South Side; a notions to that effect. sister, Miss Ann Offerman, and five A majority of people who pass the cor- | brothers, Charles, Joseph, H. E. and Dr ner of Thirty-fourth and Farnam streets |J. A., all of Omaha, and William R. of Ogden, Utah, and notice the building operations there for the new First Presbyterian church are of the opinion that the building being ected first, next to the main church edifice, is to be a parsonage or home for the postor, Rev. Edwin Hart Jenks. ‘The building adjacent to the church proper, Chairman Robert Dempster of the tullding committee explains, is really to be the home of the Sunday school, Chris- Endeavor society, Women's Aid and | missionary organizations, Boys' club, Men's Brotherhood and similar institu- tiopal activities of the comgregation. It is being bullt first in order that the cengregation may soon hold services there fustead of hiring a hall until the main church is completed. It is already roofed ana plastered, and within a month or two will be ready for use. Work on the main church building is unow going ahead rapidly. Front entrance arches are being put In place and the wlone and brick work 1s being pushed. CREDIT BROKER FILES BANKRUPTCY PETITION Anton J. Althaus puts himself down as & ‘“‘credit broker” in his voluntary peti- tion in bankruptey filed in the federal court. He got credit, at any rate, for $3,204.38 worth of goods and has only weuring apparel valued at §15 as assets It was a gay life as is shown by his One is $308 to | The next is for claim decided §21 being a camage against him because of the collision of | — his car with another car. An auto filling station is & creditor for $22.20, and a con- cern selling electrical goods for §26.60. A promisory note for $400 and one for $1,500 are among the unsecured claims THROWS ROCK THROUGH WINDOW JUST FOR FUN Some culprit, evidently with a desire to hear the tinkling of expensive plate glass when it gets in the path ¢f a mov- ing Obstacle, heaved a large rock, wrapped in cloth, through the front win- | Almost everyone knows that Sage Tea dow of King's lunch, at 1806 Farnam |,nq Sulphur, properly compounded, street, Tuesday night. A passing auto- |prings back the natural color and lustre mobile party saw him commit the deed oo the halr when faded, streaked or and furnished & good description to the | gra ' aigo ends dandruff, itching scalp patrolman on the beat. The man did 80t ana’ stops falling hair. Years ago the attempt entrance to the place and con-(ony way to get this mixture was to fined his damaging activities to smash:|muke 1t at home, which is mussy and ing the window. troublesome. Nowadays we simply ask at any drug Fimety Fiim “ating. | ore for “Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Christmas, New Year's and other feast |, . X . Compound.” You will get a large bot- drys cause many disturbed digestions. |y cor gbout 50 cents. Everybody uses The stomach and bowels should not be | “00 4000 LR L s mo one permitted to remain clogged up. for In-ieep pogsibly tell that you darkened your | cigestion and constipation are often fol-| 1o us 1t does it so naturally and lowed by merious diseases, resulting from | evenly. You dampen & sponge or sof digested poisonous waste matter. Foley | prugh with it and draw it through you Cathartic Tablets should be in every | hair, taking cne small strand at & time home, ready for use. No griping; no un-|by morning the gray hair disappears, pleasant after effect. Relleve distress and after another application or two, after eating, regulate bowels, sweeten |your halr becomes beautifully dark, thick stomach and tone up. the liver. Sold|and giossy and you look years younger. averywhere.—Advertisement. THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY VRSN GTON, Dec 1.—~Washington fs looking forward with Interest to the re-| turn of several ‘“come-backs” in the house of representatives at the meeting of the Sixty-fourth congress. Among the prominent broken back into the after an absence are men who have legislative body “Unecle Joe"” Cannon Many Come-Backs in Cofigress This Year IOUSTER SUIT IS | ' o~ " T rrrrours g \ ‘ 3 -‘ : 8 "Prmclpll Tosue 18 ‘ of Dunnville, 11, of Cincinnati, O. ‘Uncle Joe,” for thirty-eight years a member of congress and for eight years speaker of that body, naturally heads the list of ‘‘come-back He was defeated In 1912, but was elected last year. Longworth also went down to defeat in and Nicholas Longworth cure the election last year. OFFERMAN ESCAPES FROM ST. JOSEPH While Delirious, Jumps from Win- dow, Runs Away, Is Found and Soon Afterward Dies. |OPERATED ON LAST FRIDAY Fred J. Offerman, %011 Dewey avenue, who escaped from St. Joseph hospital Tuesday night, while delirlous, and climbed from a first-floor window to make a twelve-foot drop to the ground, died Wednesday morning at § o'clock While his private nurse was absent from the room, Offerman made his es- cape from the hospital about 10:30 Tuea- day evening and was found shortly after- wards on the porch of the home of W. Franta, 2227 South Eleventh strect, in his night clothes. He was discovered when the Franta family returned home from a theater. He told Mrs. Franta he had been attending a ball game. The police were called and he was taken back to the hoepital, where he died a few hours later. Offerman was operated on last Friday for tumor of the liver and Tuesday was belleved to be recovering. It is belleved the exposure while out of the hospital made his condition worse. Mr. Offerman was 35 years of age. He was engaged In the foundry business at Eleventh and Jackson streets and was a | member of the Theodore Offerman family of the South Side. Two of his brothers and h's sister are partners in the Offer- man Construction compais. He {8 survived by his widow, a f-month- Mr, Offerman was born in Essen, Ger- {many, and came to this country with his parents when 22 months old. Adams Tells of Aim and Success of the Night High School While there were 2700 pupils in the first grade in the Omaha schools in 1913, there were but %0 in the senior class of the High school that year, according to Prof. Karl F. Adams of the Commer- clal Hign echool, who spoke to the Real Estate exchange at noon. The DProblem, he pointed out, Is to hold the rest of the puplls in school until they get something out of it. He declared that the Commer- clal High school to some extent is solv. ing this problem as is also the night school instituted in the Commercial Hign He declared that the $15,000 it costs t2 run the night school will be money well spent if It is found at the end of the year that it has kept 1,60 children and young people in the high school. HAXTHAUSER IS STILL IN CRITICAL CONDITICN Christian Haxivauser, 2024 California street, who sustained a fractured skull in a fall from the Auditorium balcony Monday night, is still in a very critical condition at St. Joseph hospital An Old Recipe To Darken Hair| Common gtrden Sage and Sul- phur makes streaked, faded or gray hair dark and glossy at once, —Advertisement Reed Has Had Only Twenty-Eight Days at Home This Year Willls Reed, attorney general for the otate of Nebraska, called at the city hall and appeared as debonalr as a debutante. “I was thinking, coming down on the train from my home at Madison, that during this year | have been home only twenty-eight days. You know the statute does not specify what time I job right along. It has seemed vacation. Have had lots of fun along with the work anc have worked hard, it I do say it mysclf,” said the attorney general, Asked for an opinion as to who would be the next attorney general, Mr. Reed blushed and asked to be excused from replying to such a personal question. like a Coughs and Colds Dangerous, Don't wait, take Dr. King's New covery now. It will help your cough and soothe the lungs, Hc. All drug- gists.—Advertisement, HOCTOR BOULEVARD ON SOUTH SIDE IS REPAIRED Commissioner Jardine wishes to advise automobilists that Hoctor boulevard on the Bouth Side has heen repaired and now !1s In good condition. The commissioner explains that the creosote paving on this thcroughfare needs travel to keep the surface in condition. Child Gets Sick Cross, Feverish Dy Look at tofig‘m? | Then get fruit laxative for stomach, liver, bowels. ‘‘California Syrup of Figs' can’t harm children and they love it. A laxative today saves a sick child tomorrow. Children simply will not take the time from play to empty their bows cls, which become clogged up with waste, liver gets slugsish; stomach sour. Look at the tongue, nfother! If coated, or your child is listless, cross, feverish, breath bad, restiess, doesn't eat heartily, full of cold or has sore throat or any other children's allment, give a teaspoon- ful of “California Syrup of Figs,”" then don’t worry, because it 1s perfectly harm- less, and in a few hours all this consti- pation poison, sour bile and fermenting waste will gently move out of the bowals, and you have a well, playful child again. A thorough “inside cleansing” is ofttimes 1t should be the the first treatment given in any sickness. Beware of counterteit Ask your druggist for a b0-cent bottle of “California Syrup of Figs,” which has full directions for bables, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle. Look carefully and see that it is made by the “California Fig Syrup Company."'—Advertisement AGTRESS TELLS SECRET A Well Kno';n:;;: ’;‘ell- How She Darkened Her Gray Hair and Pro- moted Its Growth With a Stmple Home Made Mixture, Miss Blanche Rose, a well-known act- {ress, who darkened her gray hair with a simple_preparation which she mixed at home, In a recent interview at Chicago, iil, made the following statement: “Any [lady or gentleman can darken their gray hair and make it eoft and glossy with this simple recipe, which they can mix at -home. To a half pint of water add 1 0z of bay rum, & small box of Barbo Compound, and % oz. of glycerine. These ingredients can be bought at any drug store at very iittle cost. Apply to the | balr twice a week until it becomes the required shade. This will make & gray haired pereon look 20 years younger. It ulso fine to promote the growth of hair, relleves itching and scalp humors | and lent for dendruff and falling |1s rtisemen —_— WHEN AWAY FROM HOME The Bee is The Paper you ask forj if you plan to b Sbeent more than & few dayw, have The Bes matied to you. the landslide of 1912, but was able to se- | should | | #pend n Lincoln, but I have been on the | If Constipated | Vacancy Exists for the Gov- | ] ernor fn Tl LAW mm IS QUESTIONED | Hearing of the ouster suit unlnn(] |the three recently appointed mu- nicipal judges, Richard Hunter,| Robert Patrick and A. H. Murdock, | wae finshed and the case was taken | under advisement by District Judn Tedick. The principal issues as developed by argument of attorneys was whether \’|" Deal With Stores That Sell These Armour In the Stockinet Covermg | cancles existed under the new law creat- Quality Products: An axolusive A rmowr feature. 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