Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 22, 1915, Page 9

i i 1 1 -—— THE BEE OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, DE( 1915. 0 SRIEF CITY NEWS . SHORTEST DAY OF THE ENTIRE YEAR But When Days Begin to Lengthen “Townsend's for Eporting Goods." Gift Certificates—mdholm Jeweler Have Root Print It—Now Beacon Press Chiristmas Tree Lighting Outfits— Burgess-Granden company To Sell Real Bstate, list it wil Dumont & Co.. Keeline Bldg To Borrow Money on real estate J H. Dumout & Co. Reellr Bldg Teachors' Exams Next Week—Next Tuesday and Wednesday teachers' ex amination will held at Central High schoel. Marie Kearney Gets Divoroe—Mrs Marie Kearney has been awarded a dc cree of divorce on grounds of eruelty and non-support. “Today's Movie Program” sélassified | mection today. It appears In The Bee | EXCLUSIVELY. Find out what the va- | rious moving pleture theaters offer. | 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 | tank are protected by the deposito guarantee fund of the state of Nebraska. Firemen Thrown from Wagon—Hans Hansen and Homor House, city firemen | at engine house No. 14, were bruised and lacerated when they were thrown from a wagon at Thirty-first street and Ames | avenue. Their injuries are mot serious. Breaks Ankle by Fall-Frank Komm, 101 Douglas street, sustained a broken right ankle when he slipped and fell on the pavement at Twelfth and Farnam | streets. He was attended by police sur- gcons and taken to St. Joseph's hospital. | Colorado Business Good—R. 8, Rubh.; assistant general pussenger agent of the | Union Pacific at Denver, is at headquar- | ters and asserts that business throughoft | Colorado is far ahead of last winter and, | in fact, the best in many years. Colorado, | asserts Mr. Ruble, has had a perfect win- | ter, though there been unusually heavy | snow in the mountains for this early in the season. To Hold Out on Salary—Upon recom- | mendation of Commissioner Kugel, the city ocouncil dismissed charges filed | against Patrolman George Emery hy. Chlet of Police Dunn, It was stipulated | that Arthur Shields, secretary in the | chief's office, shall collect $25 of Emery’s salary each month and prorate the amount among creditors until all claims have been settled. One Man Who Has No Feeling for Fellow Men at Christmas ““There are some things,” says Pat Me- Govern, the parcel post manipulator of the local office, “that no real gentleman will do, One of these things is to send a skunk’s skin through the mails.” The pacel post people appreclate that the colors of a skunk skin may be very beautiful. They also appreciate that the odors of a skunk skin are not very beauti- ful. No, no, not very beautiful. The skin In question came in from a point out in the state. It was stated that the mall car crew tled it outside the door of the flying mail train. The clerk on the car that brought it from the station to the postoffice was in an ex- hausted condition and almost in need of a pulmotor. But it was finally delivered to the ad- dressee. It's hard to “phaze’” these mail handlers, Gertrude Hoffman Coming in ‘Sumurun’ 1M Gertrude Hoffman comes to the Orpheum the week of January 2, in her monster production of “Sumurun.” This is declared to be the biggest sensation that Miss Hoffmann has ever offered, | and it is by far the biggest production | that has éver been undertaken in vaude- | ville. When Max Reinhardt sent his | own company to present his wordless play “Sumurun” to the Casino theater, New York, Miss Hoffmann decided to | secure the American right for vau- | deville, which she did, and her success | has veritied her judgment. “Sumurun” | 1§ from the tales of the Arabjan Nights. It is In elght scenes. Miss Foffmann carries a company of more than sixty and her own orchestra of thirty. PETTY THIEVES MAKE SEVERAL SMALL HAULS Paul Peterson, 1317 Park avenue, re- ports to the police that his overcoat, val- ued at $10, was stolen from his auto, which was parked at Righteeath and Douglas streets. Jim Dolan, 2m7 North Nineteenth street, is minue a set of harness, valued at $10, which was taken from his barn. BEd Bowman, Havens hotel, asserts that clothes to the value of $15 was taken from his room. John Gregor, Northwestern hotel, woke up this morning to find that $15 was ab- stracted from his trousers. SUIT FOR MUSIC LESSONS IS SETTLED OUT OF COURT | A dlspute between Jean Gilbert Jomes, | music teacher, and Miss Pear! Lawrence, a student, which has been pending In local courts for five years, has just been settled, according to'a stipulation filed 1 district court. Five years ago Miss Lawrence sued Mr. | Jones for $3%, and Mr. Jones ftiled a counter-claim, alleging that the plaintif? owed him $158 for music lessons. The case was tried in county court and was appealed to district coburt, where it has reposed ever since. POET NOYES TO BE GUEST OF THE PALIMPSIST CLUB | | Alfred Noyes, well known Englisi poet | and exchange professor at Princeton uni ersity, and Mrs. Noyes will be guests ¢ the Palimpsest club st a banquet at Hotel Foneteneils the evening of January 7. Mr. Noyes comes to Omabha | to sadrees the Fine Arts societly the aft- ernoon of January 7, so the Palimpsest club tock advantage of the moment to have Nir. and Mrs. Noyes as honor guesls at the club's dinner that evening GIRL KNOCKED DOWN AND INJURED BY AUTOMOBILE iss Birdie Pittman, Un'on, Neb., was severel bruised about the right hip en an auto moving from the parking srict above Sixteenth and Doug to. which belonsid \ Wi . was attend A e vhose office she was laken sthe Cold Begins to Strengthen, Says the Sage. FORTY DAYS ToO GROUNDHOG | She has some further cases, all| WOMEN worthy, for which she asks immedi- | Today, December day That is to say, it is the little day— 22, is the big year. Promptly at 4:16 p. m. the well- known sun will reach his farthest point south. He will “ring in"” and in.mediately start back on his track to the north, to the good old summer time, to base ball season, to ice cream -roda-choc'late-sundae season, Palm beach season, vacation season, canoe- ing, swimming, moonlight walks scason, country club season, ‘‘hot- enough-for-yeh?' season Yes, it's the shortest dayv. Hooray! From now on every little bit added to what we've got makes the day just a little bit more. Wednesday, the shortest day, is just nine hours and eight minutes long. The sun rises at 7:48 and sets at 4:56, accord- Ing to Father Rigge's precise calculations for Omaha's latitude. To Lengthen Stowly. Yes, the days have reached their short est. But they are a bit slow about length- ening just at first. They stay exactly the same length until December 20, which is just one minute longer. December 81 wiil be two minutes longer and then they be- £in to lengthen pretty steadily. Don’t put away your flannels and heavy overcoat and eartabs and goloshes just yet, though. It will be quite a little while till it's apple blossom time in Omaha. For, “when the days begin to lengthen the cold begins to strengthen.” It's forty days yet till the groundhog comes out and takes a look about and sniffs the air to see whether spring is at hand But it's the shortest day, anyway. M’DONALD IS FINALLY CONFIRMED BY COUNCIL After several months of suspense J. W, | MeDonald has been confirmed by the city council as office engineer in the public improvements department at a salary of $125 per month. Mayor Dahlman and Commissioners Hummel and Butier voted against the ap- pointment. This matter harks back to the last city primary and eélection. Mr. MeDonald re- slgned from the park department to file as a primary candidate for eity commis- sioner. Loeing at the primary he aligned himself with the *“‘big six" and worked against “the square seven.” FRIEDRICH EWOLD, HERE THIRTY-FOUR YEARS, DEAD Friederich Ewold, @ years old, residing at 225 Cedar street and a resident of Omaha for the last twenty-five years, died at his home Monday afternoon. Th funeral will be held from Hoffman's chapel, Twenty-fourth and Dodge streets, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with fn- !‘r‘mfllt at Laurel cemetery. r. Bwold was & member of the Land- | wehr Verein and also the American camp of the Woodmen of the World “ROOMIES” AWAKE FIRST; GATHER UP VALUABLES Gust Keller, 1818 Dodge street, reports to the police that his roommate arose be- fore he did yesterday and stole $5 and an alarm clock. Tom Mahoney of the City hotel had a similar experience, los- ing $29, an overcoat and a palr of shoes. *|8till Time to fact, the “littlest” day in all the| Help Some Worthy Folks in Need Mrs. Doane of the Associated Cha: . | ities reports libera]l response to ap- | peals for aid already made. ate help. Here are three: No. 16. Man, laborer, irregular work. Three children, 6, 5 and 3. Lost part of furniture in fire. Mother sickly. Need all kinds of help. No. 17. Father unable to get work. Five children, 10, 8, 6, 4 and 1 1.2, Very neat and clean. Need help on rent and children’s clothing. No. 18. Woman, deserted. Two children, ® and 4. Mother does day work and has hard time to support children. Will YOU help one of these? Send donations direct to Mrs Doane at the Associated Charities or to The Bee. \ ICE HARVEST S00N T0 START IN WEST| Union Pacific Wil] Start to Cut at Laramie, Wyo., the Day Fol- lowing Christmas. ICE IN NEBRASKA 1S SLOW The Western Fruit Kxpress com- pany, that handles the ice supply for the Unfon Pacific, will start the an- nual ice harvest the day following Christmas, the first cutting to be on the reservoir at Laramie, Wyo. The ice is now twelve inches thick and it is asserted that with a continuance ‘EMBER 22 'APPROVAL SALES WILL BE CUT 0UT | Omaha Retail Merchants Deter Sam Burns, sto s and mort mined to Learn Satisfactory ©8°¢ le well know Plan of Abolishing Evil Sam Buras, meteorologist and weather srophet, 18 not so well known — | Yet they are one and the same mar TAKE ADVANTAGR‘ Sam Burns just burns to know all e {about the weather. He loves all kinds | The Associated Retailers are deter- of mometers—(hermometers, barometers | mined to learn a satisfactory method hygrometers. Ile has a flock of them [ of climinating the evils of the active st M8 home and he loves to go in and ” ., |feed temperatures and pressures and and popular “send-out-on-approval” | iymidities to them. He loves to wind ‘em and “return goods" practice With up and see ‘em go. a view to learning all about what| '{® buys every book that about the weather and he re s th other large clties are doing In this ang ponders them. s s o oy ohem respect, J. W. Metcalfe, secretary of figure up !n Colonel Welsh's office at the Associated Retallers, is to start ' the United States weather bureau where ) engages In decp discussions about the Thureday for a loog tour, durlng|)gpia of the weather in its native luir which time he will visit St. Louis, |Occasionally in the course of his pro Kansas City, Louisville, Indlanapolis found researches Mr, and Cleveland. new theory of meteorological phenomens ™ { Then hie hastens, early the next morning, At these places he will to Calonel Welel's office and explaina it omes out get In touch [ With the retall assoclations and #tud¥ | At such times, the colonel, Atandng their methods. All of these places men- | oy the heights and surrounded by the tioned have made a definite effort “‘{\\Isdnm gathered by thirty or forty eor climinate this evil, which has grown to | great proportions in Omaha. Omaha re- | tatlers say that women will often have valuable hats, gowns, coats, robes sent | [out to the house on approval or wWith | the privilege of returning them, when as a matter of fact they intend to return them all the time, and merely have them delivered to be worn to a ball or other soctal function. *We have been the laugh- |ing stock of some of these women,™ sald one retaller; “we are so easy % {mebby fifty vears propheaying weather proceeds to puncture Sam's new and explain just why It ean't bo Is Sam disheartened? Not a bit of it He goes right out and buys another ful of books and a new mometers, theory Arm herd of ther hygrometers and baromet - FREDRICKKSON TO LEAVE FOR CENTRAL AMERICA s Far. Few Steps T Steps thus far taken in Omaha to « this practice have gone no further than | to 1ist these women who abuse the prac- tice most. BIg retail stores have lists of thelr names and addresses. An effort is | being made here to educate them to stop the practice, 1f this does no good, then | the women. are to be refused the goods .. on approval While on this junketing trip Mr. Met- | calfe s also to study the credit systema employed, and the working of the credit | Bureau of the various retallers' organ- fzations in these cities l | Lads Have Close Call H. 1. Fredrickson exppcts to start for Central America next Sunday, where hs will remain for several months, looking after his mining there. Mra Interests Fredrickson will remain in Omaha While on o hunting expedition in Cen during the trel America summer, Mr. ec. 21, 1015, When Sled Hits Car L. Fargul, aged 11 years, 417 Poppleton | | { | | | of the present kind of weather, the|avenue, and Tony Nigro, aged 12 _\r"v‘nrm i dey followin, Chris ™ 87 Plerce streot, narrowly eoscaped se- | fuch A1l hg hristmas, three |’ . ° \iry when a sled on which they { BRI uches wi e added to the thick-| g coasting at Sixth and Willlam street | | - ness. A week later ice cutting will|collided with the front end of a stroet I -y begin at Evanston and Green River,|car that happened (o be stationary at the | | 3 w [itme. Both ladys were jar fram the | | y’“‘ | &led whén the collision eccurred and sua | 1 With the mild weather in Nebrasks, |tained slight bruises { the ice erop In this state has been slow By ] in maturing. At Gothenburg, where a | NINETY-FIVE PEF ~ALS { large quantity of fce fa cut each winter ' <9 i for the Unfon Pacific ice houses on the PUBLISH 1AHA || Nebraska division, the ice is only five! - Vi 0 inches thick and is freezing very slowly, | Ninety-five - publicat insinding | In the vicinity of Omaha the ice is from two to four inches thick, with little prospect of soon freezing to a suflficlent thickness to pack. On the ice fields at Laramie the Wes ern Fruit express s installing an eloctric ice cutting machine which will greatly facilitate the harvest. It consists of circular saw with a twenty-four inch cut It {s mounted on a truck that is propel- | led by a motor. The truck is guided by one man and it will cut ico about as rapidly as a man can walk. Another man carries the electric feed wire that takes the current from the electric plant of the town. With the machine the two men will as fast as eight men can pack Coughed for Threo Years. A grateful sufferer writes: “Your medi. cine, Dr. King's New Discovery, cured my cough of three years standing.” &0c, All druggists,—Advertisement newspapors and weekly and monthly pub- lications, go out of Omaha through the postoffice. This means ninety-five sep- arnte and distinct periodicgls that are | p¥inted in Omaha, and entered at the . | Omaha postolfice as second-class matter. Clearaway o Scrofula and ali- | Humors Give Way —— ; | There are many things learncd from | axpetience and observation that the oller | generation shouid impress upon th | younger. Among them fis the farct that | serofula and other humcrs are most suc cosgtully treated with Hood's Sarsapar- | Ma, This great medicine s a preuliar comb'nation of remarkably effec Lo blood-puritying and health-giving root | barks and herbs, and has becn tested for | forty Get it today.~Adverticement. | Give Him CIGARS THAT HE'LL ENJOY THIS CHRISTMAS You'll do this if they come from either of the Getten & Wickham Stores. Our business is strictly a cigar business and our success rests entirely on satisfying our customers by giving them only the highest quality good, Don't take chances on satisfying him by buying his Christmas smokes anywhere, just because the clerk tells you they are good. Come to a real all the year around cigar store where experienced cigar salesmen can advise you intelligently as to just what brand to give him, Come in today and place your Ohristinas orders. We will deliver when you say. e —————————————— LUCIUS OLEAR HAVANA 3 for 26c, to 2bc each. Boxes of 10, 25 and 50. EL GENIO Clear Havana Cigar. + 3 for 25¢, to 25¢ each. Boxes of 25 and 50, from $2.25 to $10,00, Made in bond EARLMONT Mild Havana Cigar, Triple wrapped, in boxes of 10, $1.00. Makes an especially attractive package Boves of 25 and Cans of 2 10¢, 12%¢. for Christmas gift. 25 and 50 boxes, $2.00 and $4.00 each, Ne———————————————————————" WE ALSO CARRY ALL THE POPULAR BRANDS. home when you come into elth ““THE HOUSE OF VALUES''—TWO STORES. 1322 FARNAM ST, GETTEN & WICKHAM cSiaRy % 502 SO, 16TH 8T, Opposite Tler Grand Hotel Phone Dong. 8348 We want you to feel perfectly of our stores to make purcha oelving gentlemanly and cour And, by the way, sugxest to HIM that ou ke, and Opposite the market affords. LA AZORA King of broad leaf wrapped cigars Always popular—5¢c, 3 for 25¢, and 10c. Humidors—Pipes Cigar and Cigarette Holders Oigar and Cigarette Cases treatment from our salesme Phone Doug we expe! neckwear length, w ful range values way \\1: congider % offer them, B0c Hollday boxes if Bury vou desire. wah SEVERAL new lots of ho , boxes of 26 and 50. Candy. share with you 1b. La you can be sssured of we have the kind of candy size fies Johnst Bunte W, 0. W. Building. 2871, tions at special prices. Sam&él Burns Tries His Hand at Helping to Burns evolves a { The Christmas Store for Gverybody Store Open Evenings Until Xmas Slightly Damaged at About One-Fourth Off y 'I‘Hl;l\' 'RE the toys and playthings that have become more or less seratched or marred 'y handling during the holiday rugh. Toys that you wil! find that are most pleas- ing to the little folks and in every instance they're remarkable values, Men’s NECKWEAR at 50c Special Lot of l'iigh-Gnde s&m in a Sale for V-lchmhy IGHT at the eleventh hour, practi- ] cally, we were offered a special 84! 0. of men’'s fine neckwear for the holi- | day business, | good that we just could not pass it by, The shipment came in Monday by ex- press and opened so much better than you abont it here. The scarfs are made by one of the best A Belated Shipment of HOLIDAY SLIPPERS Receive Mention Here and children. A belated shipment came in Monday, presenting a splendid seleetion for Christmas gift giving. Women' combinations, pair. .00, Eiderdown slumber slippers, all colors CHRISTMAS CANDIES N THE CRICKET ROOM HRI—S;]'\I AS festivities are not éuunplete without plenty of candy. We have plenty and are willing to Martha Washington Chocolates, per "Zous Chocolates, assorted kinds, Maillard’s New York Candies, all Mullane’s Famous Cincinnati Taf. Burgess-Nash CoMain Floor, Oricket Room. In the Basement Section. Pail candies for Sunday schools, churches or organiza- {Robert Smith Gets Petition Signers Make the Weather ; for ngen Judges | With & wind gauge or two, Inatalls them | s t his pit weather factory and goes | RODErt Smith, elérk of ~the distriot |vight to work rescarching sotue court, of naturslization fee fame, is sos and discovering new things. curing signatures to pétitions for the And the daily weather maps! Why, candidacies of all seven district judges say, the first thing Sam does in the Ot the Mext primary Fach and every one of tha judges in indidate for renomination, and Mr. “niith went to each with a request for & blank petition. e now hes seven peti tons ard vieitors to the office are re- morning s to study the weather map After he has ascertained that the tem- perature (s 40 below at Médicine Hat and % above at Talahasses, and that the barometor Is 2880 at Portland, Ore. Wt | o\ 0 '\ sicn all of them, The county's a correspondingly high pressure over the | g oo 0 Fae Uanin el 90000 naturs lakes and upper valleys, thus Proving | .iisation tees is now awaiting judictal de- that there will be showersa in and about | ..., Tombstone, Ariz, and Kokowo, Ind.—| Thers have heen numersus rumors that after he has devoured this Information, | the seven judgos Intend to unite In thefr we say, he is ready to cast a languid éye Iump- n. and that the candidate who over the stock market and sip his morn- | “bBreaks in" will have to be a swift trave ing cotfee, eler, but the judges deny this story. Once, It (s sald, Mr. Burne started out ~ P YTERW W g provhesying weather. Like ‘most every-| Naw 0il Field ig Struck in Wyoming body else, he thought he could “Mit it oftener than the weather bureau. It was one of the proudest moments of Coléne! | Welsh's life when Sam, one snowy, biig. ' #rdy, windy day for whish he had pre-| Anether Wyoming o'l fisid ts baing de- | dleted “fair and warmor," came up And |veloped along the ik Auddy river, remaried: abouit nildway hetween Caspor and “Guems 1'll let you do the predicting | DOugIAR, along (he lines of the Northe after thie.” western and Burlington. 1t i« asserted Mr, Burne doesn't predict mich now, | that there is a large area that is under- | but he researchés. You bet Inid Wwith of! sand and that oll his Seem And his collection of thermometers | Struek In a dozen or more wells that hysrometers, barometers ani win Dave bsen put down The new flald, it is asaerted. extends | snuges Is éne of the finest ln captiviy ——am—o along the raflroada 10 m'les or » and north inte the hill country a distance of sixty to elghty miles. Within the fleld thers (s & large acreage of deeded land and on A great deal of this loases have Fredricksen, in partnership with a capi tal fram Denver, boukht a large mine | in that country and the two Are now go [ing to bulld some substantial stamp mille been taken. The balance of the land | to mill the ore. 'They expect to lay wome | within the Area fis subject to fillngs tracks and get (he pluce equipped for land up to this tme nont of it has officlent mnng as It never has been | heen withdrawn by the government, equipped before | though a withdrawal order s looked for dscrentlibivtona at elmost any (ime, as sovernment A “Fo o' ad will turn sacond-ha i1 | Agents within the last three weeks have | furniture Into can’, | hean scouting over the entire country b tween Casper and Douglas STORE NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, “Phone Doug. 137, T IayY = £ That (€ e f TOYS That | ave Become | Surgees-Nagh Co.—TFourth Floor. Every Boy or Girl Will Want Skates for Christmas and you can do no better than to make your selection from our stock. The very best makes are included for boys, girls, men and women, 49¢ to $6.00. Burgess-Wagh Co.—Fourth Floor. e Smoking Stands Similar to Picture At $1.75 VERY man who smokes will consider one of these smoking stands a very ac- ceptable and pleas- ing gift. Mahogany smoking sets, similar to llustra- The selection was so cted that we can’t help telling manufacturers in the country-—full fth large flowing ends and a beauti- of rich new colorings and patteras. out of the ordinary at the price we Co,~Main ¥Floor. liday slippers for men, women colors and 1 and $1,25 knit slippers, combinations for men, women | tom, With glass ash [ ::g ml-:‘en n, ...... .85¢ and 63¢ | tray, clgar holder and I Women's comfy slippers, in a splendid g'v"c:“"f”' special for { selection, at, pair...8$1.25 and $1.50 Ay, at §1.78. COORINA Women's felt fur and ribbon trinimed Burges-Nash Ov—Third Fieon. | Queen of Havana Cigars, Tampa, Fla slippers, best quality, pair. ... 1.25 1 3 for 85c¢, to 3 for Boc, Men's slippers in a big selection, | 50, from $2 to $6 per box. pair QAR PRSI e ta $9.00 Al.lto ROBB | Child's and misses’ novelty felt slippers | leather 80148 +«......,.88¢ to $1.00 | ———————" | Burgess-Wash Co.—8econd Floor. At $4.98 to $19 N automobile robe certalnly would make a most accept- able gift. Our showing embraces |l pretty Scoteh or American plaids, fancy plush Navejo patterns and plain tor electries or limou. sines. Prices range $4.98 to $19, Burgess-Nash Co.—Basement. Nuts for Xmas The Highest Grade 1915 Crop Peanuts, fresh roasted, 1b. f\.fi¢ .60¢ to $1.00 .$1.00 packages, at, 1b. . English walauts, large size, i“ and Choeolates, 1b., 10¢ to 50¢ | reund ARy ) P on's Milwaukee Chocolates, 1b. $1.25 l::‘:l:: 'lllN small nln,lr‘r Bros. torty kinds, 1b..40c to 60c Al . Califoruid, Diner sbalL. ’ large size, 1b. . | large and wel o e ———— e