Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1915, Page 31

t - -t & > REAL BESTATE—SUBURBAN REAL ESTATE—SUBURBAN K See Dundee’s Newest Addition Liying directly south of Dodge street, between 49th and 52d streets, before buying a lot for a home or an investment. $25.00 CASH—BALANCE MONTHLY For several well-located lote in this attractive Addition, from 1 to 2 blocks from the car line. ALL IMPROVEMENTS MADE. ) The sewers are in, the sidewalk's down, water and gas mains laid, the paving is practically completed and an ornamental lighting system installed. WESTWARD GROWTH Remember Omaha’s best residence growth has always been West: First—Capitol Hill. ¥ Then—West Farnam. Now—Dundee. THE PAST PROVES THE WISDOM of buying in the direct line of a city’s best residence growth by giving substantial profits to the early purchager, DUNDEE’S NEWEST ADDITION offers a chance to secure lots in a restricted district—with all improvements, on or near the street car, for a small cash pay- ment and a little money each month. Many have already ac- cepted this opportunity. Are you going to let it slip by? E George & Company Phone D. 756. REAL HESTATE—MISCELLANEOUS Dundee | | or | | chureh. { . To Our Buyers We prefer not to sell you anything un- West Farnam Home Wanted The owner of 5 lots and 6-room house, located on 35th street between Mason and Pacific streets, would like to put in game as first payment on & good Dundee or West Farnam house of 7 or 8 rooms. The property above described is in the Field Club til MONDAY, as we expect to celebrate | the day, and trust you will do the same. W. Farnam Smith & Co. 1320 Farnam St. Tel. Doug. 1064.* 902 City National Bank Bldg.* | One ot Council Bluffs LD SANTA CLAUS BRIGHTENS CORNERS, Hundreds of Packages of Substan- tial Articles of Food Distributed Among the Poor. HITCH IN THE WORK Today will be observed as a holiday in! NO | Council Bluffs. All public buildings and | offices will be closed and business will | be generally suspended. All grocery | atores, butcher shops and provision de-| pots will be closed all day and there will be few, If any, of the retail stores open. Every poor family in Council Biuffs #hould be provided with the material for a Christmas dinner. Never las there | been a more systomatic effort made to | search out the needy. There has been | an abundance to relieve for the time be- | Ing their necessities. Every charitable | organization in the city has been at | work and the private efforts have been The | unusually systemati | cated by extensive and hearty methods followed Jave the work of many of | churches. Christmas trees were pro- vided last night for the Sunday school pupils and wagenloads of toys and pretty gifts were distributed among the chil- H 3 | S, T e e s s = sus| FOTIICE HAStings ‘ more substantial character. Pr h : D d the classes In the Kpworth eacher 18 Uea Methodlst Sunday school bought fifty | TP sacks of flour and distributed them yes- | torday among families that required aid. Other classes purchased coffee, tea and SALIDA, Colo, Dec. 2.—Dr. Harry Omar Scott, pastor of the Presbyterian church here and stated clerk of the Gun- sugar and gent it out with wise dis- |nlson synod, died of pneumonia at Hor crimination. All of the generous ald given was confined to the territory gram received here. drawn upon for the membership of the EMBER Germans and Austrians progressing along the Danube into Serbia. TEUTON MWITION PACK TRAN IN SERBIA. at Denevett, Pa., August 5, 1854, and edu- cated at Lafayette coliege, Easton, Pa. and Union seminary, New York. In thirty-five years in the ministry he served churches at Brownville, Neb.; Hiawatha, Kan.; Hastings, Carthage, Mo.; Guthrie, Okl, and Salld e e— Amother Late J the eleventh-hour jumps rec- Among ton, Kan., today, according to a tele-iorded was that of Sandy Plex of the New Dr. Scott as born|York Giants to the Brooklyn Feds The municipal Christmas tree was ll\-‘ other huge affalr. The services of a | half dozen extra automobiles were re- quired to deliver the more than 200 boxes | and packages that constituted the gifts. Here are some of the articles placed In the boxes Five pouhds of roast beef or pork, peck of potatoes, peck of apples, three pounds | §hool of beans, two cans of corn, two cans of | . "camide Ingram is quite ill with hominy, two cans of sweet potatoes, two the grip at her home. large cans of condensed mily, three| Miss Ruth Blomquist has resi pounds of sugar, one pound of coffee, | school near Bloomileld, and wil two cans of peaches, pound of butter, | 81 HOME te P OL L0 NCL e m one dozen oranges, nuts, candy and fi85. | .nq unable to ettend her work at the Many of the boxes contained small telephone office this week packages of flour, ontmeal and corn-| Miss Grace Robel assisted her father meal. in the meetings several days this week. Valley. Miss Freda Helnbach is home from her l\'hm).l near Belden for the Christmas ied her remain district and in the very near future ought to be quite desirable as it is located in the immediate vicinity of fine homes. Will be pleased to hear from anyone having a Dundee or West Farnam home on which the above property can be put in as part of the purchase price. O'Neil’s Real Estate and Insurance Agency. Tyler 1024, 634 Brandeis Theater.® REAL ESTATE—SOUTH SIDE 1t’s Not Too Late ‘o buy that beautiful Field Club house lualod ,on th Avenue just south of Poppleton. _Owner {8 going to Cal- fornia and has made us a price on this property at which purchaser will get the lot practically free as the house alone cost close to what he Is asking for the Hiatt-Fairfield Co. Wishes its many customers and friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.® HOLIDAY WEEK SPECIALS A Few Lots to Be Sold at Bargain Prices for Cash. '$190.00—40x128, one block from car line and paved street. Two of them may be had together. They are level and on grade. 'i!‘().l’\l)-lnl faces FEast, located North in well built district; three short blocks from car line; high and level, and on grade. $292.00-Two blocks from West Farnam i losed Friday noon At ¢ o'clock all but three of the pack- |, The Valley schools €088 P 500, ages were out and at nightfall nearly|anq Mre, Euband will nd the vaca- everyone engased in the delivery had|tion in Linoln: Miss "%oity, Miss completed their work. Little difficulty | City, Misg Wahlgren at ¥ T, Tolg Wwas encountered in finding the addresses and getting the right packages at the proper places. The municipal Santa Claus this year set a new record, and all of the work was done with order, speed and precision. Koehler Tells of Assault that He 8o tar as his clouded brain retained the impressions connected with the drunken fight that ended in the death of John Lubben, John Koehler yosterday rolated to County Attorney Swanson all he could remember of the tragedy at Treynor Wednesday night and the discovery of the dead body of Lubben Thursday morn- ing. Lubben apparently withheld nothing, In addition to striking his friend and companfon In the head with a hammer he admitteq that he followed up the at- tack and beat the prostrate and help- Mr. Dafley at Wahoo. i Mi Vellle Gatfin, who hag su u for .l:I Mutz in the third and fourth roing for rades, will leave Friday mo "“ - owa, to visit her sister. She turn to Peru after the holidays, and Miss Mutz expects to be able to re- sume her work. et Manifred Lilllefors, Vietor ersen, ¥lin Anderson, Mabelle Peterson, Ruth and Frances Whitmore are home from lttlm university for the Christmas vaca- on. ve a reception in hol wodldln‘ ulnndlverurymc‘f Carlson Monday evening, M “and . Mrs. Andrew Wicklund. Rev. Mr. Hasselbad and Mr, Charles Robel were among the guests. A fine leather traveling bag and a purse of money was presented them. Rev. and Mrs Springtield. Iazel Holliday went to Dunbar Friday to spend Christmas, Farl Haney, of Peru, is home for the | holidays. | Vorne Lovell of Missouri is visiting | his uncle, Mr, 8, O. Lovell, | Gertie Smith, who has been teaching tist church at raville LR R T ¢ he. tynth Made Upon Lubben s at the home of entire property. 8 roome, only five yea old and up to the minute in every pa Car line; this lot has gas, sewer tleular, Built by the present owner and city water, and is on' grade; regardless of expense. It's a snap. Price all street work done except pav- $500. But mo reasonable offer will be ing, u place to build a modern declined. home at the least expense. Armstrong-Walsh Co. Here Is a Good One: Tyler 15%. Keeline BIdS.* | §47250-A West Farnam corner, S4x128; one and a half blocks from car line; lot is level and on grade; no filled ground; has sewer and water, fronts South: let us show you this lot; it will double in value in the near future. REAL ESTATE—WEST SIDE §100 CASH-$18 MONTHLY. | We can sell you & very desirable froom | 1 the ne house on @ lot 60x125; all in_ bearing i fruit, consisting of gra strawberries, Ne i :;Al'fl;}'ourfl‘\;’elll: {3 ‘:lo.!;g cherfies and apples: alsg 8o0d_chicken o Fig ol house. ar car school. A P e s Merry Christmas and a Happy SHULER & CARY, ew Y Phone D. 4283 204 Keeline Bldg. Closing Out For the Owner We are closing out a few cottages at bargain prices, on very easy payments. | %0 down and $20 per month buys a nice | 5-room house. newly remodeled. City water, gas and sewer. Walking distance from depot. Price, $1,700, 5-room, strictly ‘mew, modern bunga- | low. Hardwood finish downstairs. Fine neighborhood, Near Farnam and Har-| ney car. $400 down and $30 per month. | May take lot for first payment. | 6-room cottage, modern ept _heat. Vemllz park district. §100 h, $20 per month. ear. PAYNE INVESTMENT CO. D. 1781. 5th Floor Omaha Nat. Bk. Bldg.* West Farnam Stucco Residence Large living room with beam ceiling, fireplace, built-in bookcases; dining rooft with bullt-in cut glass cabinets, quar- tered white oak wainscoating below plate rail; kitchen with built-in cabinet; butler's pantry between kitchen and din- ing room, with bullt-n cupboards; table leat closet, dust and clothes chute; rooms on first floor finished in quarter-sawed white oak: second floor has four bed- rooms with mirror doors: bath room with tiled floor, equipped with bath tub, ped-| estal lavatory and shower bath; large | attic; basement with laundry tubs, floor | 3 o | O-room. Walking distance, on North drain, tollet, fruit cellar and coal bin; |, | vapor heat; semi-indirect lighting fix- _-‘f::\m:lm% Must be sold. Price, $2,500. tures; screens; lot 59x139, located 4802 Far- Store room and cottage. Northeast of erms. hm W Piies Lo ¢ i the city. Rented for $5 per month N & N Price $3,500. orris orris Fine '7-room residence on Pinkney 40 Bee Bldg. Phone Douglas 4210.% | street. Four bedroomns upstairs. Strictly = S o g modern. Good garage. $500 cash, bal-| B 1 | ance to suit. Price, §3,500. 1X IKOOM DUNZAIOW | " Croice " vacant lots,’ between tth_and | 8th, Dorcas and Martha streets. Near | ar lines. Fine location and neighbor- West Farnam |5 e, Fine location ‘and neighbor. . - you to your order. Di t, $4,000 . . located on a Hxis-foot lot, paved |I7th and Douglas Sts. Doug, 513.* street, one block of Farnam car line; this Is worth investigating; for addi- tional information call Hiatt-Fairfield Co. 23 Omaha Nat| Bank Bldg. Telephone Douglas 495.* LEGAL NOTICES BTOCKHOLDERS MEETING, The annual meeting of the stockholders of THE BEB BUILDING COMPANY will e held at the of.ice of sald company in Omaha at ¢ oclock p m. on Tussday January 18, 1916, for the election of & Board of Directors for the cnsuing year and for the transaction of such other bus'ness as may properly come before the meeting. By order of the President FEIL, D.18-J17. Secretary REAL ESTATE—MISCELLANEOUS REAL CHRISTMAS BARGAINS, Five-room mod, cottage, northwest, $2.6%0 Brand new, all mod. bung'w, north, $3,100 New, all mod. bungalow, southwest, $3.260 | ¥our mew bungalows. walk. dist.’ $750 | Brand new W. Farnam home, e. fri., $.60 (Wil rent for $40 per month.) All mod. new Bemis Park home (#47.50 per month, nothing down.) Beaut'r'] Pret'st Mile stucco hwme, $4,90 A few Druid Hill lots left that can be bought for $1 down and e per week. JEFF W. BEDFORD & SON, 22 Keeline Bldg. __Douglas 332+ 3200 CASH—$20 PER MONTH, Six large rooms, all modern except furnace; paving pald. There's a chance to buy & home or to make an investment with & small amount of cash. We wish Merry Christmas and & Happy Year. PAYNE INV MENT CO, D. 1781, 5th Floor Omaha Nat. Bk. Bldg.s BARGAIN DUNDEE L ° SIX-ROOM HOUSE, of slecting two directors and N 3 B such other business as may ONLY $3,650 . ransac Hot water heat, oak casing, corner lot, l;c:hy come before it. . i NGS & LOAN ASS'N, i~ 4 | The Union Land Company. 70| TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE | Soniat UNION LAND COMPANY, The annual meeting of the stockholders of The Unlon Land Company will be held | at the ofiice of the Comy | Neb., on January 10th, 1916, at 10 o'clock A, M., for the election of five directors, | and for the transaction of such business o5 ‘may lesally come before the meeting. ALEX. MILLAR, Secretary. D.30d .20t ny in Omaha, | LEGAL NOTICES LBOUAL NOTICE. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the State Savings & Loan Assoclation will be held at its offl the pu! STA VINGS W. H. GATES, B L B 1 Omaha Nat. Bank Bullding. D, 1204°* y IRViNe'S. | quest to be held Tuesday morning. Koeh- |of col | 1908, Tue » January 1ith, 1916, | W 17th 53 Harney Btreets, & at Neligh, 1s home for \'lutlon.' B ¥ord Bates of Lincoln, is visiting h Dnr‘!‘nll, r. Mrs. L. A, B-tu.‘ Peter Chapman, jr., of Boulder, Colo., visiting relatives in this vieinity. Miss Biizabeth O'Brien is a guest at less man with a heavy billet of wood. Assistant County Attorney Jackson and Bherift Groneweg went to Treynor yester- day and made a survey of the situation, | sketobing the scene and getting all of the | information known about the affray by | the home of Mr. and u‘;.. L A; g-t: the people of the village. It coincided and | Mr. and Mrs. James n of Papll- confirmed the previous published account, | 100 visited Mrs. R. Timberlake over but established the fact that the fight | had occurred about 4 o'clock In the after- | Christmas with her father in Weeping noon and that Lubben died about § | Water o'clock in the evening. A young woman | Roger Geib, was found who saw Lubben lying in the | Nebraska City schools, doorway of the house occupied by Koeh- |1OM® here. ler and Hintse, and that Koehler w beating Lubben over the back and shoulders with a club, telling him to ‘et up and go home." She heard Lubben moan and cry out, “Oh, John! John!" In his slgned statement Koehler said | he struck Lubben In the head with the 4nd Mre. 8. C. Haney this hammer and when he fell over and | Charles Martin has been _appointed wouldn't get up he remembers of be- |deputy county treasurer, and will file Iaboring him with a club. In the yoom |for the office of county treasurer mex where the men had been staying the | S the officers found many empty whisky bot- | crcignion ek W e e Omana, 1o tiles and about half & dosen empty |spending the holidays with his parents whisky jugs. Koehler, Lubben and | here. Los Aw- Hintze, all unmarried and living in ad- Mrs, Henrletta Heacock, of , been visiting friends jolning houses, had been drinking to- | FOlen Cal. who hag becd hureday gether for several days. They had always “lara Fate left Friday to spend who 18 an instructor in the is visiting st his Lourbon, 0., to spend Christmastide with her parents. W Aot ce Elwell, who is a o a e R raska. Wesloyan university, is home to spend Christmas. Gliver Haney, who s teaching at Mo- Gregor, is_ visiting his ul“'l: Mr. 8. e cre the last month, left last for her home. |been goog friends and thore was no en- | William Kieck, who ls now = r:‘rla. mity at the time of the fatal quarrel. tendent of schools at Imperial, Coroner Cutler had a post mortem ex- | fOF the office of county superintendent county. amination raade yesterday by Dr. Treynor | t"!* and Dr, Earl Bellinger, who will tell their findings to the coroners jury at the In- > 41 H H C. M. Bogard has to spend the holidaye. John Kinter has gone to Corydon, Ind., for a visit with relatives. Louls Cramer left this weck for Call- fornia to spend the winter. | Prot. and Mrs. George Campbell are at Osceola for a visit with relatives. ler {8 in the county jall with & charge of murder against him and Hintze s also held for the action of the coroner's jury lowa News Notes. GLENWOOD.—Dr, W. A. Priest, one of the best known men in 8. W. Jowa | Fred Kuhnhenn left —Thursd tor died at his home in Emerson at 43 this | Seward, where he will spend a few morning. ~Dr. ‘Priest came (o Hender. | weeks son thirty-two years ago, and_ after e returned from Chappell ward moved to Emerson® where he has | (ior ek far a wisit with relatives and practiced twenty-two years. “He wax 8 | {ndy graduate of Miami medical college o Clncinnatt,” practicing three yoars bafore | John Felselman left Friday for Hick: graduation which was in 1873, Ho leaves | man to spend the holidays wit ol {wo boys and two girls, Harry of Oak. | Parents. y [ land, and Sheridan of Couneil Blufs, | W. L. Gilien and wife of Councll rs. John Cunnngham and Mrs. Xan: | Bluffs. 1a. are here for a visit with thus imel of Malvern, lowa. He served | relative four years in the union army. ! s Clara Marquardt, who is teaching a avelo is here for a visit her parents. “Fess Gruber arrived the first of week from Miligan, where he has been the last summer. Misses Villa and Anna Alh noliday vacation Plenty of Coal in Paris, PARIS, Dec. 25.—Paris is In no danger of a coal famine, Marcel Sembat, min- Ister 'of public works, sald in the cham- ber of deputies today, while speaking on a bill regarding the sale and distribution Mattie Nutzman Gupen, thelr n are spending ———— B, J, for Indiana eral weeks Mr. Biren Larten held a public sale Thursday. Mr. Larsen will leave In & few days for Texas, where he will side in the future. where he will Attack V. visiting. MINNEAPOL constitutionality 'of which Indlans tacked dity of ( Mipn. the permitted app Act, Clapp aet of mixed " blood to sell thelr lands, was at by the government in federal district court today, in a test case in which titles to approximately $15,000,000 worth of land on the White Earth Indian reservation in Mir ta are involved West of thi = s |TUN a8 rallway AL NOTICES ERS MEETING, Weeping ter. place, 15 back on_his mail clerk on the Mis- ne between Omaha and afier being in a hospital o following (njurfes in the wreck near | ame Ann al meeting of the Stockhold- | Plattsmouth recently. ers of the HASTINGS AND NORTH. | Plans are being made for TERN RAILROAD COMPANY, for |gucting of a night sehool the election of seven Directors, and the {ers. who desire & bet transaction of such other business us !the English Ianguase. come before the meeting, be . L. Sum Compton left Tuesday moruin, E:'" O Bedes direste: Oual tor - Templeton, 1a., to spend. Christmas it on Monday, the 3rd day of with his scn Wil and family. . D, 116 11 o'clock A. ary, A D BIG AL R Semretasy. Kansas City, the con- for foreign- ter command of Mabel Brigley left last Wednesday for |, with | | nicely. Moser left Wednesday evening | spend sev- | dl re- | Will West, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.|% by the death of her brother, Omar D. rty. Misses Clara Meyers and Mary Adam- ®son of Avoca visited the last of the with Miss Irene Jones Elizabeth Doty went (o Alva Thursday to spend the holidays with her daughter, Mrs. Loren Mickie Mrs. Hostetter, of Union, visited the last of the week at the J. L. Brecken- ridge home. Mrs. Lynn Barrett of Aldersyde, Can ada, changed cars here Wednesday on her way to Elmwood, where she has been called by the iliness of her mother, Mrs, M. W. Walts. Mr, and Mrs. Armstrong, of Oakland, arrived Wednesday for a visit at the home of Superintendent T. V. Truman. Miss Olle Stevens of Long Pine. Ne is here on a visit with her friend, Miss Mabel Dedley. H. 8. Boyle of Farnam, Neb. is here for m Christmas visit at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Boyle ngt: Claus Oft returned from Canads this week. Miss Marie Steinert is studying sew- ing with Miss Delfs at Millard. Hans and famil are visiting with fi In this vicinity. Miss Mary Dierks is ill, having recently undergone an operation. Miss Den, day from Millard where she attended sewing wchool. . A number of young people gathered informally Tuesday evening at Miss Irene Gran's home to remind her of her birth- day niversary. The puplls of District 4, Miss Myrtis h, teacher, gave an entertainment ursday evening and enjoyed a Christ- mas tree. Santa Claus was also a visitor. The local camps of the Modern Wood- men and Royal Neighbors, who rocently elected officers, are planning a jo'nt installation and oyster supper to be held January 20, St. John's TLutheran chureh was ecrowded Frldl{ evening by those who came to enjoy the program given by the Bunday school puplls and to see the beautifully decorated tree. Rev. Mr. Nusbaum, the pastor, was presented with & handsome gift. Papilli Louis Daup of Kansas City visit tives here this week. City visited rela- Misses Nell and for the Christmas Joe Btrawn will Nora Dolley are home mmyn. d Christmas at his former home at pman, Neb. Miss Mlilln Y, who teaches in maha, will s her two weeks' va- cation at her home here. The Sunday school of the Presbyterian churoh will give FHatmas® pagea SUIoEaat vE'RY Be ohrarchias paseant Misses Marion Brown and Doris Clarke snd Klr} Brown, who are attending the dh(. unlvi ersity, are ing th - at thelr h'omu h?r.-'.m oF Mrs. B. G. Fase, accompanied by Miss Hattle_Patte ot David City and M Alico Weeth of Gretna, will leave Christ- Ti:f night for Florida. Mrs. Fase will t her mother Cloud Irvington. Mrs. Brenner was an Omaha visitor ST A Jacobs ss Annie Jacobsen went to Sloux City to spend the holidays with her uncle. Mrs. Hackman children left Tues- day for Bhelton, Neb., to spend the holi- s with her parents Mr. Rubeck of Om: ent Saturda; ot The Williams Same "Dent Satunday whownl.ln Plvde‘dnmxl-y aftel o?‘n i N Eoiidays With B arions 0 Toiag the Chester Hendrick visitor Saturday. e T Satmens Mr, and Mrs. Lue were entertained at at dinner Sunday. Harry Knight Norman Dein were Omaha visitors Tesduy. i Mr, Hendrickson, Mrs and 'Mrs. Al istopherson Omaha vunm?:'}nc..%:v o Mr. and Mrs. Wa ited at the Vestal ins, Paul from the the holida. Bo; the es of Omaha Villlams home Powell and Mr. were d Alfred Thompson are home iversity of Nebraska to spend The revivi ting at the Christian urch will cloge Bunday with three ices. A rance lecture will be given in the rnoon. Mrs. Vestal was an Omaha visitor on Tuesday, While pla; on some sofa pillows Saturday ethoon liitle Bobbe Giffo needle in his leg. Dr. Hall was called to remove it. He is gotting along Bikborn. Mr. d Mrs, Clarence Bendie and ghil- dren came Wi ay to visit Mrs. Ben- e's mother, Calvert Adolph Otte and baby are viai this week wi Mr. Otte's parents, r. and Mre. Marélis Otte. Mr. and Mrs, Charles Werner and baby were eastbound passengers Sunday after- | noon. l':_ and Mrs, E. A. Schurman visited l{.'ly recovering from o en reon of Bwing came Thurs- 0 spend the holidays with his par- tores Calvert ot Wiliard: Cols. rge Calvert of 0., came Tuesday to visit his mother, Mrs. Amy Calvert, and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Betts were Omaha visitors W €. C. Holli 3. N. Wyatt were city att and daughter, Helen, w mg:r‘v Neb. 1o visit during !h‘.' hulldla Mr yatt will go ter. re. J. . Beefus and son, wr-l to Bcotla Friday to visit her son, Philip. WITH THE INVADING TEUTONS IN SE RBIA—Pack-horse ammunition train of the l DES MOINES DOGS DOOMED City Physician Orders Them Killed Because of Prevalence of Rabies. FIVE PERSONS ARE ATTACKED (From a Statf Correspondent.) DES MOINES, Ia, Dec. M.—(Special Telegram.)—The Christmas time proved unlucky for & lot of dogs in Dea Moines was because of the prevalence of rables. Five different persons have been at- tacked recently and three persons who wére bitten by a dog which afterwards developed acute rables are being treated at the hospital at the University of lowa. Must Pay Compensation. A hearing was held today In the office of Industrial Commissioner Garst on the Martin Walker case. Walker was killed while working In the Des Moines Union roundhouse some six months ago. Com- pensation has been claimed by relatives under the workmen's compensation aot, but the rallroad takes the position that [ Counoil Biufts | Minor Mention | Councll Bluffs Offtos of The Beo is at 14 Worth Main 8% Telephone 43, Davis, Drugs. Victrolia, $15. A. Hospe Co. Woodring Undertaking Co. Tel. 30 Scientifically fitted glasses. Leffert's Gardner Press, printing, 101 First Ave. Lewis Cutier, funeral director. Phane,2 Stockert sells rugs, 205 W. Bwy, Tel. 3/ DAMON BLECT Qi CO.~Nitrogens, BRADLEY ELECTRIC CO. WIRING AND FIXTURE: Phone 304, Dr. 8 W. McCall, dentist, Baldwin block, Councll blutfs la. Phone &I TO SAVE OR TO BORROW, S8E C. B Mutal Bidg. and Loan Ase'n, 1 Pearl Furniture and chatiel joans, % usual rates. Eatab. 2 years. A, A, Clark & Co. COMBINATION BRIDGE WORK. Dr. H. A. Woodbury, dentist, Sapp bk We clean, alter and repair any kind of clothing. ok's Cleaning works. Phone 1, FOR POULTRY — Grit, shel' meat acraps, bone and ali xinds of remedies and feed. Younkerman £eed Co. Paone County ‘Treasurer Christensen yes's day began a sult In the distrist court aeainst the administrators of the estate {of W. H. Butler, the wealthy farmer why died ‘s year ago, seeking the recovery of five ‘years of alleged unpaid taxes ‘e total amount sald to be due is 3281053, and the county treasurer mskt that it bo increased by the ® par cent penalty bed by law. The Butler valued at $225,000, and as t greater part of it consisted of hixh pri farm lands, located in the vicinity of Neola, the sult caused some surp y The estate was finally administered ani practically closed a few weeks ago. It was distributed entirely among brothers. aisters, nephews and nieces after the portion of his young wife had been §:t Mrs. Mary Ellzabeth Haskins, aged i Yfilfl. died at the family home in Hasel dell township Thursday afterncon of leal i 'Of !("ht hl\lrlk. Haskine “.M been 'or three wi . Sh 1V the husban aom’ Hasking, and. one Page_also John Pa two rs, Mra. J. W fi"‘""§ , Mrs. J. W.' Haynes Noeola and Mrs. L. C. Brackett of Coun- cll Bluffs, ree sisters also survive. are Mra. John Benson of Garner township, Mrs. Tim Ryan of Rockford township and Mrs. Minnie Reef of Cres- oent. uneral services will bo held at 1:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon the Grange church, Elder Hanson of Weston :fllideh S Ahl::irt xir-ynr IOI‘VBIMlT“"hfi eld at the home at noon. Burlel be in the Grange cemetery, Mother Follows Her Son at_DEath's Call It {8 not lable under the workmen's cOm-| My Sara Eiiza Deming, aged pensation act. as It 1s engaged In inter-| aieq at §:30 o'clock Iu:'w-nm.-m: state bustness. This has been the Post-| nome, 925 Third aven 3 tion of rallroads in simitar cases hereto- | feqte of a fall nm‘ -'Inm i -l fore, but yesterday it was ruled by the|just a week ago. arbitration committes In the BSalvatore|ture of her left Mole case against the Rock Island that|oush shock. Death rallroads were liable in non-negligent | after the death cases under the workmen's compensa-| Deming, who died Thursday evening 2 of Ontario, Wash., ds and relatives Lebbert returned home Fril i tion law, heart disease rendered acute by Divorce Makes Children Oriminals.| the strain placed upom him by the Judge C. A. Dudley of the district| terrible accident to his aged mother, ecourt declared in refusing a divorce the| The death of the mother occurred al- other day that the divorce courts of this| most within the hour her son was buried. country are making criminals by separat-| The funeral of the son was held at ing parents whose children are thus de-|the residence of Mra. N. P. Dodge, 4 prived of proper tralning during the | FIfth avenue, and the mother died be- formative period of their Ifves, He scored |fore the funeral cortege had returned the lower courts for their laxity with|from the cemetery. The shock of her reference to divorce matters. ‘“Recent|Son’s death and her own terrible in- opinions of the supreme court have, aa|juriee was more than her feeble body I have road them, been very severe re-|©ould bear. bukes to the lower courts of this state| Mrs. Deming had been a continuous in granting divorces," sald Judge Dud-|resident of Council Bluffs for more than ley. “In fact I have sometimes been of [ balf a century, She was the widow of the opinion in reading the higher court's|Amos L. Deming, one of the strongest rulings that there is no such thing as|men In the local banking world of securing a divorce through the higher|Seneration ago. He was one of the most court. successful and widely known bankers in I have been smitting in ecriminal court for a year and during this time have had occasion to consider some ai- vorces and some criminal matters—mat- ters which send people to Fort Madison and younger ones to the reformatory at Anamosa. I have had to consider cases involving Inebriate husbands and their children and cases where recrults were secured for the underworld. I want to say that in a large per cent of those cases where young men were sent to. the reformatory and where young girls had gone wrong, I learned they were the children of divorced parents.” No Traius, Conl Famine. « With no trains on the Chicago, Ana- mosa & Northern raliroad since Novem- ber 20, and an abandment of the morth- ern half of the line since early in Sep- tember, several of the towns along the road are suffering for coal. The road is in the hands of & receiver, but permis- slon was granted this week to run some coal trains so that the coal famine could be relieved, Other buswe: such as grain and lumber, in these towns, has been paralyzed and the citizens are pray- ing to the rallway commission for re- Mef. Asststant Commerce Counsel Dwight Lewis returned yesterday from Dubuque, where an injunction case is being heard in Judge Reed's court in connection with this road. The injunction was granted at the request of G. K. Farmer, recelver for the road. The court, however, and those interested in the road are tryin to dlscover some way in which it may be financed and operated. The Meyer Brothers Construction company of Chi- cago 18 the principal owner of the road Towns on the northern half of the road which have been without train service since early in September are Quasque- ton, Kiene and Robinson. On the south- ern half of the road are Coggon, Prairie- burg, Jackson, Chicago & Northwestern Junction and Anamosa The road Is thirty.six miles long. The Btate Normal school ls now carry- ing on normal extension work in ninety- five ocounties of the state, according to the statement of President H. H. Beerley, who was in Des Moines today attending the meeting of the State Huard of Education. More than 10,000 teachers are enrolled in the work and about 100 persons constitute the teaching staff. Classes are conducted in the smaller towns of the county in elementary nor- mal work for the benefit of the rurel and small town teachers more especially, The work was started two years ago by the State Normal, but this last legis- lature fixed an appropriation for it which has permitted the work to be enlarged. President Raymond A. TYoar- son of the lIowa State college at Ames told the board that the services of O. C. Bimonds as landscape gardener had been provided for next year through the generosity of L. W, Nowes of Chicago, an Ames alumnus. This will be the sec- ond year Mr. Simonds has worked at Ames under (his plan. He is considered one of the foremost landscape artists in the country and the Ames campus will be developed into one of the most beau- tiful in the country under his direction, it s believed. ’ the Missour! river valley, Mrs. Deming was a woman of strong personality and most lovable character. Surviving her are her daughter, Miss Grace Deming, who, is now alone at the old home, and one mon, Lawrence Deming, residing at Watertown, D. Arrangements for the funeral have not been made. BODY OF MRS. SWEETING WILL BE BURIED HERE Friends in Council Blutfs were greatly shocked to learn yesterday of the death at her home in Chicago of Mrs. Mary Oliver Sweetin| She died Thursday afternoon after en illness of several weeks. The body arrived here last night for burial in the family plot in Fairview cemetery, Mrs. Sweeting was the daughter of Mr, and Mrs. John T. Oliver, ploneer citizens of this city. She was born here and spent all of her life here until.her marriage to Arthur B. Sweeting of Chicago a num- ber of years ago. She was always one of the most popular young women of the city, a natural leader in the social world and loved by all her friends. Mra. Sweeting s survived by her husband, her mother, Mrs. John T, Oli- ver, and her sisters, Mrs, Horace O. Gleason, Mrs. Rose M. Patterson and Mrs. Warner Welch, residing here, and her other sister, Mrs. Herbert M. Pulker, | of Chicago. The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at the home of her mother, 331 Park avenue. It will be pri- i vate. The services will be conducted by Rev. Frederick W. Evans. BIG RECEPTION PLANNED FOR LEAKE ON RETURN | Friends of Ralph Leake, aasistant phy- sical director of the Young Men's ris- tian assoclation are planning a recep- tion when he returns Tuesday from Keokuk, where he has gone to be mar- ried. 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