Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 9, 1916, Page 12

10-A OMAHA GREETS ALFRED NOYES English Poet Reads His Own Poems to Society of Fine Arts and Palimpsest Club. ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME GIVEN Poets don’t all have iong hair For example, Alfred Noyes of Lon-| don. who was the guest of the Omaha Society of Fine Arts and nu-j Palimpeest club yesterday | Mr. Noyes hasn't much hair at a!l and what he has he wears brushed down smooth. He is a smooth-faced young man and wears glasses. For an hour last night he recited | Iary his poems to husiness and profes- Pratt slonal men of Omaha and their| wives at a banquet of the Palimpsest | The five young women pictured ab club in the ball room of the Fonte- have entered their names for a half-mile race on roller skates to be held at the nelle hotel, and they seemed to en- . ... . joy it. Even b seemed to like her husband’s rendi- a S Sh I poetry. ::;mum.-n.n have donated 8% silver Jobn L. Webster presided. Mr. | . 0 whicn wiil be aws as A prize } Mrs. Noyes sat beside him. Mr. to the winner. next Friday evening City utiful Mrs. Noyes Commigsioner Charley Withnell and Man Charley ¥Fri oo who conduct the %8 of the Auditorium for the eity an@ Mrs. Gurdon Wattles and Mrs.| All of the five young women entered so | I far are expert roller skaters and ail have 3 n were also at the, Dt i R §0od speed records. They should put up speaker's table. The tables Were | ', ... ;ood race and Charley Franke, decorated with roses and greenery |who has seen all of them step off some and a bank of palms stood back of { fast laps on the Auditorium maple, de [ clares it would be no surprise to him if ws nyenker bt ¢ winner should hang up a record Mr. Noyes' poems are not profound. |t There is no need for foot notes. The | . wisdom of a Hacon, a Milton, a Shakes | peare, A Browning or a Byron 1. |.n| AI }A[RS AT SOUTH OMAHA found in them ir slightest degree. are little, liting lyrics which der»rnu rnr their effect on their music and cadence. Pohcc Magistrate R:ed May Enter Simple Themes in AllL RICE for Mumclp'\] They deal with the simplest nuhjml. | Solas One was a ballad of Sherwood forest and ge. Robin Hood and his merry band of | - thieves. Another told the story of an inn- | MAKES RECORD IN FINES PAID keeper's daughter who sacrificed her life to save her robber lover, Another recited, [ Police Judge Harvey Reed has an- in simple sailor language, of a visit to|nounced that he may be a candidate | the present home of ancient Prester John | for judge of municipal court at the com- by some sailors from London town. E£till|ing election next fall. By way of In- another described children dancing around | troduction, the judge nas compiled a few & “barrel organ” or hurdy-gurdy figures, During his one year of service Mr. Noyes recited a few that were pa- | Which expired yesterday he has taken in triotic and spoke of “oaken-hearted Eng- | something like 85,76 in cold hard cash, in land.” And he closed with one which |the way of fines, plctured the Fritish fleet acouring the| I want to tell you, and the people,’ seas grimly for Britain's enemies. He |#ald the judge yesterday, “that that is #ald It was “a war poem by a pacifist.”’ | & real record. There has never been “War 18 a8 most hideous evil, but I be- | SUch a record established in the history lleve there are worse evils,” was one of | Of this old town of ours. I'm pot say- | only two or three remarks he made aside | In& that I will run for judge, understand, from reciting the poems. only that I might if conditions look fav- orable.” Introducing los final short “war poem,” he told & terse little incident as an illus-| 1eed was the popular candidate among tration of war conditions, events and | ® #core or more of filing applicants, both sthtes of mind tn Xogland tods: democrat and republican, at the election “Shortly before I lert En " he|in Bouth OmalNa two years ago, and suld, "I was in the office of a publisher | ©AMe out with .a fine majority over when an elderly man in a shabby coat| former Police Magistrate Callahan, who ran for re-elect) entere *“'Did you hear about Arthur? Inquired Woma Life Saved. the publisher. “The reason I done this was because . everybody seems down on me, Yes' sald the man in a quiet, grim §"'; 40y " g™ 10" friends, but plase take voice; ‘he was shot through the heart’|care of my children, goodbye.” “Ilis manner was so strange that I Mrs. Cecilla Shields, colored, wanted #ald. “Was he some relative of your: to die. Evidently so by the above note “‘My son,’ be answered, simply. ‘My| written on a scrap of wrapping paper other boy was killed last week.' " found In her bedroom. But when Chauf- Mr. and Mrs. Noyes left at 10 o'clock | feur Danbaum and Conductor Jackman | last evening for Chicago. of the “flying squadron” came to the | “Practicaily all European literature | little cottage at 006 South Twent during the last twenty years has been | ¢lghth street, they found Mrs. Shields destructive and negative,” Alfred Noyes| bad merely taken several drops too asserted in the course of the serles of [ many readings of his own poems, which he| Hard luck had been too much for her [many friends and neighbors, and also We &ave before the Omaha Soclety of Fine|0nd the whiskey route seemed about the |1 O O TR S 8 LS Arts in the afternoon. best way out. It required two llmlrt..r d District No. b, for their | “Such a period of negative and de- | !0 bring the woman to a clear conscience, | ltind and sympathy and beautiful ifloral offering during the death of our structive literature preceded the French Jovial Joker Pinched. s beloved husband and father. Mrs, Wm. revolution,” he continuew, “and I believe| ¥red Hasak, address West Q, had a the present terrible war in Europe s | Fabbit partly due to the same sort of literary, Uite an exhibit to friends iu certain period.” liquor establishments on West Q street | Thursday evening. Hasak amused him- \snatio self by hiding behind a door and smack- . NERAE S 8 i8. Shems.” Dl °fling the first ome to come within his Life,” which he sald he wrote several | (& © years ago as a reply to a skeptic and| - atheistic work by a German author. The poem ended with the Old Testa- ment's opening theme, “In the beginning, God. . . . Hasak was placed under arrest. Later at A nee K astic. the station he was released under bond Mr, Noyes was given a very hearty and n Briggs. euthusiastic reception by the audience,| Friday Hasak falled to appear in which filled rhe ball room of the Hotel'court and he donated the three bucks Fontenell rupted the poet, as well as approved his | assoclation, several readings. Many of his passages Stock Yards League Scores. and remarks were humorous. His read- ing was delightfully natural and, as he explianed, he sought to recite the poems Mr. Noyes made these remarks in ex- walks the beat on West Q street. Smack! Andy felt a sharp pain shoot across his face and a loud laugh. Instantly Mr. 3. Total Stark ... 164 a5t Wilkerson @8 he wrote them, rather than as an elo- | Hansen . 2 L3 cutionary performarce. He was patriotic| Malloy ... us an and loyal to Britain in his utterances, or, | VOrKer «.oo. = a8 he put it, he admitted himself to be Totals..... T S 838 unneutral. WOOD BROS. ist. .2d. 3d. Total ‘ Nominations Close 1 et M H i Ribibstedbese . BT A For March Primary : ) | Totals. ‘“'l‘.\u’u 8 s 2,61 In the Hoosier State rouat | | Wilkerson INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 7.—Petitions Johnson to place the names of fifteen candidates, | 10" Including two for the presidential nomi nation on Indiana’s preferential primary ballot had been filed with the secretary | of the state when the time ‘mit under 'Randall l Tolsh the primary law expired tonight. The :Efl-k' primary will be held March 7 and this in | {ytano" = .",f the first time the law has been put Into | Thomas 1 i effect. Indiana will be the first state to | . = vote in the presidential primaries. [ Yo "™ The progressives did mot filo petitions | Church for any candidates for. president but did. | (\West Q@ Street T Rovert. 1y Jate today, for United atStes senator and g governor hul) ninth « | Memortal Presbyterian, Twenty-third | coipt of information from Bloomington The candidates for wiom petitions were and I streets, South Side, R. L. Wheeler, | (o 7¢ 0F 1hormetion e filed follow Il.nl‘.y Hl‘ll-l schools \n,‘\k ll-ymfllm'hh ll'l "‘::“ A‘- :4 ';:n h,ll‘l‘l nmnllwa - S 4 £ SiNhaite CEenE PRSESIA. Sehviosh. Bt | Afvecment to aoes a similar position For President—-President Woodrow Wil- |11, Evening service at 5:30. Junior Chr 8- | with Indlana university, A mescage i riee woomats former Vice - President | Lan Endeavor at 4. Senior Christian En. | o anciand university. A inessage from Chries Warrep Fairbanks, republican. | deavor at %:#. Prayer meeting Wednos. | President W. L. Trvan of Indiana or Vice ident~Vice President | nuy ever " g 3 . " { Cha or Av of Nebraska received s B Mo "y ng at 7:0. hancellor A t aska recelved . Somacrat. nm W, | Millsdale Baptist, Forty-thira Kern, democrat vr R. Rohinson, H. | M. Hubbell, Director—Bible B New and James E @ Watmon m s |m; evening service at 7:%: ser d James B. Wilson, pr e. | ducted by Foshier For Governor—Congressman John A. M M. The interest is in A d Leonard B. Clore. democrats; [Sunday evening scrvices t Warren T. Me James P. Goodrich, |Pave hit the trail thus fe Quoley A Myers and It O, Johnson. re- | eXtended o all blica «nd J. Frank Hanlcy, pro. | Bt ke's fifth and K : Pastor—Sunday school at 9:8. Bluffs Forge Ahead | & b 4 e For United Stat an_ Church Twenty uss at 3. Luther rian leader: top! Of Omaha Centrals | g Lefler Memoria! Methodist Episcopal Council Blufts defeated the Omaha bas- | Church, Fifteeuth and Madison Streots, mund Silverkead, Pastor—Sunday ket ball team last might at the Young Ilrh\' } ;. M 0 Men's Christian assoclation bullding by | school at 10 Frea hing at 11 “Jesus and His Relition to the & Ssoore of 8 10 3. It was not untll the | The firet of « serics of sermons on Christ and Practical Religion.” able to take the lead. At the end of the | league at 6:45 first half the score was 14 to 14 The | /% subect, “A Fearful Recompense team been South Omaha United Presbyterian, Cor :"" Sy playing together |, 2ing o ihivd ana 1. Albert N. Po soveral years and nearly all of the |ier, Pustor—Sabbath school, $:45 . m Omaha men are new plavers. The game rl ching by the pastor at 11 a. m.. jun was . & large number of |"m"’ Do Yours ching In Lunell Blufts enthusiasts and » number gicning ' n account of ihe union serv e . S Oeshe. 1 The "2 thodist church; prayer mecel) and B Stre ing service at 11 at Twenty afternoon | Reed. Both we the relcase of | | wich, Austrians, w [ thirty “daya in ' the | earifer part of the w b | Dre The sald animal, being dead, was | ter Detective Andrew Lepinski, who apirited debate + Froquent applause inter-|bond to the Police Relief and Pension | | tion that 560 A10 | deprived « 45 | during ty-five men nvitation is Rev. 8. H. Yerian, vangellstic service at ople’'s Cuoristian THE OMAHA SU Speed Demons Who Will Race on Rollers at Auditorium Betty Velechovsky QGertrude Hoftman | or erely indicate a diversion of un | parallelled m | designed to w: Zlartha Swanberg Wednesday evening, the juniors will have charge and will serve refreshments Grace Methodist Church, Twenty-fifth Hev. Dr. J. W. Morris, Pastor—Sunday school at 9:45. Dr. M rris will speak on “Visions” during the morn Everyone is requested to bring the taber nacle song books at evening service. Interdenominational, Twenty lce at 7:30, Himself,” ‘being ‘the first of a series of fermons to young people: Wednesday evening, teachers’ meeting: Thursdy [ evening, choir rehearsal; Fridav evening, young people’s soclal for everybody; Sat urday morning, boy scouts Magle City Gossip, A Boy Scouts’ and campfire entertain- ment was glven by members of the or ganizations in the Central Inte: enomina- tional church at the Moose hall Friday evening The ladies of the Central Interdenomi- national ch were entertained Friday ok at U Fre ome of the iail yesterday ning” by Police Jud, arrcsted on a char of disturbing the peace. y South Omaha democrats are ex- | sted to attend the big rally and dinner glven at Lincoln next Tuesday evening Doc” Tanner, a local democrat, is on arrangements committee, Mayor Doabiman sueceeded in obtaining | Chirich and Joe Pazano- were se nocent of the Card of Th harges preferred nks—We wish to tha 8, Helen Dross, Arthur Dross They Try to Place Blame for Neutral Trade Disturbance WASHINGTON, Jan. % —sesponsibility, a8 betwe for the n Great Britain and Germany. of all international law may have been taken into port by G Britain, but only fo temporary ‘aluy ch for contraband., What has 445 | taken freight ships off th ocean are Ger- man submarines that have been blowing lup freighters Senator O'Gorman insisted he had not said the 200 vossels had been held up continuously, bat some so taken had been held up for months. Debate on the Walsn resolution resumed tom 'Rutherford Will s not concluded and will Tow Stay in Nebraska 4INCOLN, Neb., Jan. 7.—R. B, Ruther- | ford, captain of the 1915 Nebraska foot { ball team, will be slgned as assistant all-year coach at Nebraska at once, was announced today by members of the | Nebraska athletic board, following re | this afternoon ays that Indlana happy to concur in your request for the release of Mr. Rutherford The cc lete arose when De was off through E. O. Stiehm, Neb had received a Nebraska proposal epartmment Orders. WASHINGTON, Jan 17.-<(Special Tele- 1)~ Nebraska pensions granted: Sid- ney A, Hayer, Fremont, $12. A postoffi-e Las been eatablished & ¥ Mrs. Mayie L. rointed postina unty, lowa, i T lonka, K. Keys Para cointy (Mury E. Flaber, decouscd. SHAKE HANDS WITH WILSONS FOR HOURS - Congregation will join | union services at Trinity Baptist church fifth and K streets in evening Rev. Willlam 1. Hill will preach. Junior league at 2:%. Epworth league at 5:30 Women Greeted by President and Bride at Reception. MOST SPLENDID EVENT IN YEARS | M, H. K. P. Corning, Pastor— | chool, 9:45 a. m.; morning worship at 11, "topic, “How to Worship:" ypung people's meeting, 6:30 p. m.. evening serv ‘A Young Person and WASHINGTON, liant reception given at the White | House tonight by Fresident and Mrs. Wilson crowned the soclal attentions | | pald visiting delegates to the Pan- | American Sclentific | the last two weeks !ent and in splendor the affair sur- | passed anything of the kind seen in | Washington in recent years. Martial music and handsome cos- | tumes lent color to the scene. For more than three hours Latin- ! American scientists and diplomats, | government officials, members of the | sepate and house, jurists and other | invited guests passed down the re- | ceiving line in a steady stream. By the side of the president stood his bride of less than three weeks, who to- night made her first formal appearance |ns mistress of the White House. Wilson, emiling continually as she shook hands with the guests, wore a magnifi- gown with a long train, congress during | In numbers pres- | csdames Jacobsen and | former, 1446 Smith and Ellzabeth Austin were | mentenced to thirty days in the county need to | nty fafl in the although in k our cent white satin brocaded in sil Held in Blue Room. | The reception was held in the historic | | Blue room, but the entire first fioor of the mansion was thrown open to the guests. | | They assembled in the East room and ed through the ! receiving line and through the Ked room to the great state dining room, where a buffet supper was served. was assembled { marine band, playing stirring music. More than 4,000 men and women shook disturbance of neutral trade on |hands with the president and at times the the seas, was the subject of another |carriage line outside extended mx blocks In the senate today dur- Ing consideration of Senator Walsh's resolution to fnvestigate the frelght em- bargo at eastorn ports. When Senator Newlands was stating {that the tieing up of German ships was | éntrance partly responsible, Senator U Gorman in- | crowded, jauired if he considered in that connec- | neutral vesscls had been |uniform were on duty taken from commerce because of Britisn | directed the crowd orders in council, rightly designated by the State department to be in violation In the entrance red-uniformed Mrmbcru of the cabinet and otner espe- cially invited guests assembled early and | | long before 9:3 o'clock, the opening of the reception, the time set for v and naval aldes in full dress at all points and Before the arrival | of the official receiving party the pariors | were filled with members of congress and | their wives and prominent officials and ‘It is not true that the trade has been | diDlomats. 200 neutral vessels,” declared | Senator Nelson Many neutral ships Walk Slowly Dewn Stairs. The appearance of the president and . Wilson was heralded by a fanfare of trumpets, followed by the singing of “The Star Spangled Banner. were turned toward second tloor. naval aldes and his wife appeared, down the stairs and into the Blue room They were followed by the viee Marshall and the walking slowly , daughter of . occupled a place in this line as the wife of the secretary of the treasury | River of Doubt Is Discovered Again By Two Engineers FRANCISCO, which was discovered by Presi dent Roosevelt, been rediscover » and Stephen Ges- Standard Oil company, according to their from South They described it as getting its supply from glaciers and running for %0 miles Bolivia and Madeira river Pictures taken along its course oversy over the Nebraska ath ed the Ne- braska position and it was learned that he had promised his services to Indiana, an offer having been made to him Brazil into the ska conch who goes to indlana next year. It had been the understanding in athlotic circles | here that Coach Stehm would make Rutherford no cffer until after the latter engineers reached River of Doubt by crossing Andes with pack mules from Lima, They had with them, data on Colonel Roosevelt's report with which to check their sald they penetr waters of th observations They were attacked by ¢ encountered enormous reptiles and strange animals in the dense forests through which they hewed their way with at Peachi, Warren county, lowa, with Pearl on has been ap suth © O Wolfe, res gned and Mrs. Madge B Rowlett at R itron bras<a, vice Mrs crossed the mountains, of 17500 feet descent they encountered glaciers at the | T3¢ Tof A B ey ] | 10-foot level e an elevation the | total of eleven British An echo of General Sir Ian Hamiltons found in a report p 1 today that —— I Sir Frederick Stopford, who was Slavs Bombard the Defenses Before Sovs : g o cpbmdhanis o Czernowitz from Nearly Half nquiry by ¢ “.N.',,,_T,,‘,‘,, . , i a Thousand Cannon circumstances of the landing of troops in Dardanel | PAVE WAY FOR THE INFANTRY Russ Lore POO Me LONDON, Jan, 7.—Some idea of : s | . Bessarabian frontier and i the determined nature of the Rus-|tne Stripa reglon during the New Year's slans’ blow on the Besearabian front g were at least 3,00, according is conveyved by Petrozrad dispatches |to the official statement fssued by the today, which sta @ that the Russians " in e d arntion of for fifty hours concentrated 400 A Batoid 4 guns on the Austrians’ positions at arack against the of Cene | Czernowitz, as a preparation for in<| Prianzer nd Balts Ruasian tr erywhere were i med that a zreat fantry atta The Russian communica not vet claim that Czernowitz has fallen, but dispatches from German sources admit the Teutonic position | there is critical { It is not yet clear whether the! Russian operation in this theater herald a b'g general offensive move- | | ment of all the Russian armies from | the Baltic to the Roumanian border | fons do | battle, with a view of breaking through hostlle lines, was imminent and would bring the Russan army Carpathians nitude and fierceness en the pressure of | the central powers n the Balkans | and incidentally on the Italian front | Fighting 1w Bitter, The fizhtisg has been of the most bitter character ac ing to h the Austrian and Russian reports. Few prisoners ake, for instance, in the * being taken and the infantry sngagem . the other d are largely in the nature of han encounters, a smoldering mass of ruins, All of the Russian operations thus far write ups” of some of the papers. revealed are be'ng pressed along the rail way lines, which simplify the probloms | |§ ful Dry Cleaning Works would of the winter supply of food, ammunition | G MO 1 stricken Europe The sitvation alonz the other fronts are comparatively quiet The loss of a British submarine by a migchance of navigation off the Dutch JANUARY CLEARANCE Offers Sensational Bargains for Monday Men’s Winter Suits and Overcoats At Just About HALF PRICE Just Pay $1.00 A Week the fire. 1t is next to IMPOSSIBL! following paragraph YOU a penny. nam street. Ladies’Coats i Sog syl © B | Sy $14.05 St waehie. 91100 All Our Ladies' Suits and Dresses at very low prices. 1417 Douglas St. $60,000 The Grip epidemic has increased Old Crow, the demand for “Seventy-seven” so O1d Taylos i Guckenheimer, | that our resources e taxe e Take home & full Sunny Brool | serve and husband their supply of these famous Seanas 0Old Overholt. T best esults, take e ofaiBey “{“ it Califormia Glarer Feve St " at the first feelin Full Quart Roc! eventy-seven’ at t g O S Mok and X of Grip or a Cold, a chill, a shiver, Fort Wine, per gallon pcr quart Free Coupous for Chinaware. lassitude. f 1t you wait until you begin to | Send Us | cough and sneeze, have sore throat Your Mail Orders and influenza, it may take longer, 25¢ and $1.00 at all druggists or mailed l\-.m.n. Street. New York THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO BEAUTIFY SOLDIERS WASHINGTON appropriated. $4.000 addi- especially for and obliterating modern methods. COLUMBIAN STEEL TANK COMPANY, 1655 West 12th Sireet, A Newspaper Reporter Is An Imaginative Cuss, Isn’t He? you would have thought our plant to have been , had you read the ' of our SLIGHT fire And a slight personal injury was magnified so that our beauti- a fortress in battle Vivid imaginations are perfectly proper when possessed by out and out writers of fiction; imagination is really needed in the structure of novels and movie scenarios—but—wouldn’t you think that a story of the news of the day should be a story of ONLY the news without.any flights of imagination added? Newspapers have special departments for fiction; news space should be restricted to ACTUAL happenings. So—=get THIS firmly fixed in your mind— That Fire at Our Estab- lishment Consumed Only Few Yards of Belting and aFew Pairs of Gloves w Every wheel in our establish- ment was turning by 5 o’clock in the evening of the day of to have a serious fire at our estab- most perfect AUTOMATIC Even if we ever lishment for we have the latest, FIRE PROTECTION that money will buy. SHOULD have a disastrous fire you are PROTECTED by the Remember that Every Item you send to this plant is insured against fire and the insurance doesn’t cost morning; know is untouched; , repair or rebuild any- Now then get your clothes together tomorrow that the immense ‘Dresher” ready to do your bidding; to clean, thing and everything worn by Man, Woman or Child. vour work at the plant, at the Dresher branches in the Bran- or at Dresher the Tailors, 1515 Cleaning plant deis and Burgess-Nash stores, Phone Tyler 3-4-5 and get in touch with our ‘“untouched” plant. Dresher Bros. 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