Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 22, 1916, Page 7

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ONAHA HORRIES 10 | HELP THIS FAMILY! Little Mother lnd Seven Ch.ldren cape Wolf Made Happy. BUSINESS MAN BUYS A STOVE The good people of Omaha re-| sponded promptly to the needs of the little woman whose story was told in The Bee Wednesday evening. She and her seven children, rang- fvg from 18 months to 12 years old, ! live in a little hut in the “bottoms.” | 8he has just been freed from the bur- | den of a drunken husband and is bravely and uncomplainingly facing the problem of bringing up the seven | k little ones, ‘ month and she takes in washing and | i » busy every minute, Mrs America had the pleasure of telling this woman that thors are many people in i) Omaha who are only too glad to help deserving persons like herself new courage and thankfulness into the : woman's heart, end the bare little shack in the lowlands will be replenished in a day or two with ita new furniture and comfortable sleeping quarters for the| seven youngsters. Here is what will go into that humble home: One oed, two mattresses, bed A clothing, two chairs, one bureau, cn ttove. A Children Rejolcs, My, how glad these children are! Their | i little, busy. bustling mother says they're 4 looking forward to the new furniture all the time, and they can talk of nothing clse, Every time they see a wagon com- ! 198 down toward their house they get excited and ‘hink its the furniture. And the brave little mother is working all the barder, every minute of the day | and far into the night when the litile | brood is in that same dreamiand where the richest chilicen go at night. The coal stove i brand new. It was| furnished by a promivent business man of Omaha. He called up Mrs. Metor- | mick and explained that while he didn't ’ ' have any second-hand stove to give he { lad the wherewithail” to buy a new stove. Jardine Plans Way to Spend the Sewer | Fund During Year| City Commissioner Jardine of the de- partment of public improvements will call the other commissioncrs into con- ference next Monday or Tuesday for discussion of a sewer program for the | year. There will be available during the vear $20000 for sewer construction work, and the problem 1s how to expend j this money to the best advantage. Mr. Jardine's idea is to outline in advance a compiete program for the year, rather + than involve the council in frequent dis- cussions during the year. | A tentative program, prepared by the city engineers, entails an estimated ex- Who Had Hard Struggle to Es- | i Her pension is $20 a| McCormick of the Volunteers of | 1t has put | TOKIO, Jan. 17.-(Correspondence of the Associated Press)—Rarely has an event excited the Japanese people as did the flight of Charies Niles, the Amerfcan aviator, who gave two ex- hibitions before some of the largest crowds ever witnessed in Japan. The jfirst day's crowd was estimated at 200~ THE BEE: Lamy May Meet McLean On the Ice | EDMUND LA ITY. NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—Edmund Lamy, | champion speed skater of the worid, is now in New York giving exhibitions, and an effort is being made to arrange a race between him and McLean of Chicago, the American champlon. NILES IS BIG HIT IN JAPAN | American Avmwr Shows Brown Men How to Loop Loop and Fly Upside Down. FIRST TIME SEEN IN NIPPON ®0, and the second at %000. The house tops and other points of vantage about the Aoyama parade where Mr. Niles maneouvred in the air were black with people, and many arrived hours before the time of flying, in order to get a good position. Prince Higashi Kuni, who is deeply Interested in aviation, was pre- sent on both occasions, several of the junior princes imperial Japanese house. Mr. Niles did his flying under the aus- pices of the Aero club of Japan, of which the president i General Gaishi Na- as were of the penditure of $179,000, and embraces the following sewer work Further extensions of Saddle Creek sewer, Harney to Leavenworth streéts and from Leavenworth street to Popple- ton avenue, one section being a ten-foot sewer and the other twelve-foot; con- | nection of Dundee sewer at Fifty-first street; continuation of Miller park sewer through Minne Lusa addition to city limits at Twenty-seventh and Reed streets, a distance of about six blocks; Thirty-sixth and Lake streets, a connect- ing link of three blocks; Thirty-seventh and Bedford avenue to east side of the Deaf Institute; continuation of Fontenelle park sewer to proposed new lagoon in the park; Jones street, Thirteenth to Sixteenth streets, Evening Classes in Cooking and in Sewing, South Side Superintendent Graff will bring before the next meeting of the buildings and the for grounds committee of the Board of Edu- cation request that permission be granted to the Board of Recreation for e use of rooms in South High school - evening cooking and sewing’ classes it [ cvenings a week and to make them par- ticularly Inviting to packing house em- ployes. If the school officials grant the use of the rooms the Recreation board will engage Miss Mary Bookmeyer, head of the science department of h H Thick Smoke from Waste Paper Blaze Fills the City Hall paper and rubbish city hall caught ¢ after- a gt A bundle of waste nent of the s proposed to hold these classes two | gaoka. This was the first time that the people of Japan have seen aviation feats in midair and the maneduvres of Mr. Niles, who flew upside down, looped the loop, and gave -an - exhibition of what is called “falling leaves," ca wonder. | The great crowd became frantic with cheering, and became so unmanageable, that it broke loose and rushed to the place where Mr. Niles had landed. It was only after some desperate struggling that the airman’s assisiants were able to force thelr way through and rescue the machine as well as the airman from the enthusiastic and somewhat embarr- assing acclamations of the crowd Mr. Niles was presented to Prince Hi- gashl Kuni, who warmily complimented him upon his exhibition, the like of which, he sald, he had never seen. Seve wral floral pleces were also presented to the aviator. by General Mr. Niles, referred to him as the “Commodore Perry of the air’” - The officer sald “You have come to us at a time when the state of aviation in Japan is quite similar to the state of civilization when Commodore Perry came. We confidently expect that the progress of aviation a Nagaoka dinner at which gave General by your flights and hence we can ap- propriately give you the title of the | ‘Commodore, Perry of the Air'." The visit of Niles has served to arouse greater has spurred the Japanese aviation corps to greater activities. A national aero society, which will be devoted to tho cause of aviation was organized through the efforts of Lieutenant General Nag- soka. A monthly magazine will be pub- lished with the object of increasing popular interest in aviation, and at the same time a campaign will be started to secure contributions by which the soclety expects to organize a voluntary air ser Counsman Files for rvice squadron. { home, Japanese officers headed | | | Nagaoka | in this empire will be enhanced greatly | interest in flying in Japan and | Lamy already holds several world's rec- ords at the age of 24. He has been com- | peting since 196, Ho celebrated his debut by winning the international champlon- \ ship for juniors .t Montreal, incidentally | lowering the world's record for this class | by seventeen seconds. Texas WldOW Says “Dry” Platform of Matrimony is Best | OMAHA, | who are harvesiing fce. *;\’I‘I'RI\\Y, GOLD WAVE ()N THE Slx Luckiest Guests Awarded Steel Stock for Bridge Prizes| WAY, SAYS WELSH ay First Matn%im\vr hurried to have the black flag hoisted to the main- The news was received with wild huz- sahs by such people as the companies WIith 33 degrees above zero at * a. m. the upper crust of the twelve-inch ice on Carter lake was getting decidadly mushy, The harvesters on that body of vater lald off thelr ganss at noon today > ev.alt the arrival of the cold wave. The fog yesterday was due to the influx of the warm uir and its coming in contact with the ice and snow and frozen ground. It had lifted by 10:30 a. m. Railronds Say Not. After figuring on the reports of the agenta at stations out in the state and in | Colorado and Wycming the railroad offi- | clals can see no reason for expecting any | cold weather in the immediate future. The station weather reports coming to the railroads ‘ndicated fog and a lizht drizzling rain 1p and down the Missouri valley and back fiom the river a distance of seventy-five to 100 miles. This condi- the river generaily Thursday night there was light sleet, rain and snow, and still .l.\NIT\R\' It was eln, Mirs manner, 99 1916. edgnd Forecaster Feels Chill in the Air s :’ i and Orders the Black Flag A b ‘ Hoisted. oI & thate 4t 1 ¥ (RAILROAD MEN DO NOT AGREE "'t ticked swov b Up with the cold wave flag" was per e the stern command glven by Colonel Mrs. Gar @ bri Welsh, commanding the good ship T 16 home, wit “Wind an' Weather.” The command ("'} fOUF Sitets. S was given after he had studied the . jjcred t wi weather map Friday and madethis | one genuine, late, sur forecast for Omaha a stock that ctands for “Unsettled and colder tonight. ||t Wo* too much for the feellngs of upper crustd Colder Saturday, with cold wave.” | h-h-h! they sald Gary, it happens, United Statos as it were. le Ed and Ruth & Steel thought of being so orlginal Mr. the that the stock wa uet, Is ow tired of bom- | The law eventually Six shares of United States Steel pre- forred are worth $702. It wasn't that the hatrma corporation, 1 #ort of a home prod confirmed the story, but sald he didn't care to comment on It Mra. Gary's party, There's only cre trouble; can give steel rtock for prizes, and Mrs ary doesn't give but one bridge party | a season. he explained. not every ‘Four in Fight and One is Sentenced |: Swapping pots and stove lids and shov- | Willls, Grace streets, finally barding each other, and jolntly Joe McCool, with whom they Joe was away from home, and Mrs. Joe ‘n-nvlv\ merchants of an ordinance which nth atta was sum- i prizes were so expensive, the winners staff over the federal bullding, that (8¢ WIFC IO TAPCHER, A et tn’ police. comt the people may know what's coming. the thing, what? Nobody else had ever ten a of the s dy GLASS SIGNS PROHIBITED OVER THE SIDEWALKS | and cked Hve | The city bullding department advises "ur fluminated glass slgns. Three to fumigate ween exposed to acarlet fever. Nelghbors the canine was seen running at lar | Tubbs and Special Officer. L. Brandels Hayes. THREE THCUSAND PAID FOR POLAND-CHINA HOGS stores thousand doliars Florenco for forty pure-bred Poland China hogs at the sale ot D, C. The top price was $305 pald by W. ‘Pearl Foley Burled | Mother and Sister Have Scarlet Fever ert 1. Gary has ; gy Mre. Willlam Foley, 345 South Nine- teenth strect, {8 dangerously il with scar- : s {1et fever., Pearl, her 22-year-old daugh- teel pr ter, was burled Friday afternoon, a vietim . Steol lof the dis ? $ | ‘May, another daughter, is a mcarlet and draws 7 | | fever patient at the eity emergency hos- | pital. Willlam, jr., 12 years of age, has 1ge party at her [ not been stricken \ #ix (ables and | TT e R TTT body know what SENTENCED FOR STEALING and when the hostess | A HAT AND WALKING STICK « at each tadbl A enough share of When John Hayes of Chicago, “swiped™ the real thing & hat from the Omaha Hat company, . well modulated C. Tubbg, clerk, observed the theft and fom [ followed John. The latter was traced to like that | the Brandels stores, where after wander- | ing through several departments he stole a walking stick. Tubbs |arrosted by Traffic Officor Wents, and the offender was sen- d to sixty days in the county jail had the fellow T. Finn of appeared acainst was pald in Lonergan Thurs- for Queen He also purchased Big for Big Exception day. P. Cowan of Wheaton, I, N A I s TR s A A B Hercules 181277 | moned and the auariet of belligerents | Florence 18127 for f3%0, C. L. Platt o | hailed betore Judge ster. The magis. | Carroll, ITn., paid $106 trate sent Joe, Ruth and Mrs, Joe home, | 177340, but kept ldward to serve a $25 and costa fine | OFFICER IS SENT OUT TO FUMIGATE A DOG tion maintainod from up in South Da- Was getting decidedly the worst of the | piahibits the use of glass signs outside kota down into Missouri |argument, when her husband returned | of huildings and over walks, A Chicago | ePorted that For another fif'y to 100 miles back from | And cleaned house in a most cfficlent | agent 1s sald to bo soliclting orders here | '©AVe & quarantined | Mealth Inspector McGann was detailed to g0 to Twenty-fourth and Ames avenus a dog that was sald to have to house and Is now farther back the weather was clear, calm and with temperatures ranging from 20 to 40 degrees above zero. The young widow in Houston, Tex., who wrote to Postmaster Wharton asking that he provide a husband to rule her lonely heart has written thanking him for his efforts on her behalf. It will be remembered that the post- master received about twenty-five an- swers from willing Barkises whose manly hearts longed to throb in response to the beart of some gentlo creature He forwarded these to the widow with a fatherly letter, telling her which of the letters sounded most promising to him In her answer she thanks him and re- iterates her “d platform of matrl- mony. “I sure don't want a Texas drunk- &rd to drink up my home,” she says. ¥From which the postmaster concludes that she doesn't want a drunkard from any other state, territory or dependency “to drink up her home.” He deduces further that she has a for, says he, If she had no home “to drink up’ it couldn't be drunk up. The widow concludes, “1 will write again and let you know my luck.” l City Hospitals Are } Filled to Capacity hospital on Doug- The city emergency las street, and the auxiliary hospital, rented at Twenty-second and Lake streets, are filled to capacity with scarlet fever patients, fifty-seven being at the emergency and twenty-five at the lattey institution, The health office reports some abats- ment of the scarlet fever outbreak, al- though the stituation continues to re- quire considerable vigilance by health and school officlals. Many cases which should be attended t the city hospital are being cared for in homes because the city is not prepared for an emergency { TO JAIL FOR STEALING SAW AND HAMMER FROM CITY William Washington, frequent visitor at the city jail, left the city workhousa. Thursday afternoon without leave of absence, carrying with him one saw and hammer belongir to Omaha. He was arrested shortly afterward, and was sen- tenced to thirty more days in the work- house, TWO NOTED ERUCATORS TO SPEAK TO TEACHERS President King of Oberlin college will |address the public school teachers next | Thursday afternoon at Central High |school auditorium. On Friday afternoon | Dr. Laull of the University of Washington | win w(.k to the teachers at the same MORSE THROWN THROUGH Glerk qf the Court Harr Counsman, present county as- sessor, has filed uLls name as a candi date for the office of clerk of the district | court Corn receipts were 117 cars and tho ‘ E { price was off one-half cent, the sales being made all the way between 62 and #8% cents per bushel ! oats was from Thureday cents per bushel. Receipts were sixtee: unchangod at 43 to on sales bcing made market La Grippe that comes with la giippe, Foley's Honey and ! fieet of Germany wil take place in the | fire in unknown manner Friday . noon and the smoke from the blaze suc- ceeded in almost filling the administra tion building before fire laddies sum- | noned from Station No. 3 extinguished the fire with the aid of chemicals. Tne | moke caused some consternation among | the city employes GOOD WHEAT IS CENT UP ON THE OMAHA MARKET While some f the poorer wheat was lc wer 1€ y the Omaha market waa A cent the top being $1.20 per | ” The receipts were ninety-six BELLEVUE DEBATERS levue college debaters are hard at work on the question of mnational pre- paredness In preparation for the annual |A L utton prize debate, which | held the evening of February 11 Jud | Sutton for a number of years has offered | this prize of $30, | debaters. The debaters teams, with Seymour Richardson and Bernice Miller, w Webb, Jack Ph affirmative. were divided Smith into two Garwood negative, and | lter samuel Kinnie ps, Wil Talk Blockade. Jan. 2).—A general debate on the question of a blockade by the British carloads. - . Get Rid of a TMacking Cough—It Weakens. h LONDO> | For the severe racking cousl B Tar Compound is wonderfully healing and House of Commons next Wednesday. soothing. It cases the tightness over the | PERS_ONM. P——ARAGR—APHS chest, ralses the phlegm easily and helps | o FASNISy LE 4 | 2% x- r. Lee W. Bdwards, who was the racking, tearing cough thet is so ex-| D, tee W yarie, who wr — hatisting and weekening, R. O. Colling [0 Sovigton, Sash. S8 expast wite ex-postmaster, Barnegat, N. J. Suadey sftemagon Prak O Déstl wit | “Foley's Honey and Tar Compound soon | deliver ‘an address before the Omaha \ completely exhausted me. It can't be |‘. lding. Nineteenth and Farnam streets, | beat.” Sold everywhere.~Advertisement, [at 3 o'clock AFTER SENTOR PRIZE | ' 1L be wi | to be divided among the | ! W|NDS‘HI§LD OF A TAXI R. Morse, 2020 Lake street, was |bruised and sustained several cuts when | M {he was thrown through the windshield lof a taxi in which he was riding. The |taxi skidded into a post at Elghteenth land Cuming streets, and Morse was |Jarred from his seat. He was attended ‘-n\ Dr. Charles Zimmerer. Advertiser and customer profit by the “Classitied Ad" habit. | R R D Pain i ue Back Is often of the most violent character, yet it is |ut}) ing how quickly it disa pears when Sloan’s Lini- ment is used, not only for backache but for Rheumatism, Neunl‘h, Nerve Pains, Sloan’s Lisimecat is remarkably cficctive. Sloan’s Liniment KILLS PAIN +'Keep & bottle in your home." Price 25¢., 50¢c. §1.00 NEGRO HIT ON HEAD BY BRICK AND IS UNHURT John Willlams, who lives at Twelfth and Cass streets, was struck squarely in the forehead by a brick which fell a dis- tance of fully thirty feet, but beyond a mere gashing of the ekin Willlams was unhurt. Willlams fs a colored laborer employed in the excavation for the new First National bank at Sixteenth and Farnam streets. REV. TITUS LOWE DELIVERS BACCALAUREATE SUNDAY The midyear 'baccalaureate address to the graduating classes of the Central | High school and High School of Com- merce will be by Rev, Dr. Titus Lowe at the, First Methodist church next Sun- day morning. Special music is being ar- ranged by the vested cholr under the direction of Prof. J. E. Carnal. Stomach in Order and Stop | Gas Indlgestlon ‘‘Pape’s Dia.pepsin" regulam I \ I disordered stomachg in five minutes. No more dyspepsia, sournen; heartburn, pain, belching, or mdxty Nothing wiil remalh undigested or -n\lr‘ on your stomach If you will take a little Diapepsin occasionally. This powerful | digestive and antacid, though as harm- | less end pleasant as candy, will digest and prepare for assimilation into the blood all the food you ean eat. Eat what your stomach craves without the slightest fear of Indigestion or that you will be bothered with acidity or sour risings, belching, gas on stomach, heart- iburn, headaches from stomach, nauses, | bad breath, water brash or a teeling like you had swallowed a lump of lead, or other disagreeable miserles. Should you be suffering now from any stomach dis- order you can get relief \vithin five min- utes, 1f you will get from your pharmacist a | H-cent case of Pape's Diapepsin you could always go to the table with a hearty appetite, and your meals would taste good, because you would know thers would be no indigestion or slgepless nights or headache or stomach misery all the next day; and, besides, you would not need laxatives or liver pills to keep your stomach and bowels clean and fresh Pape's Diapepsin can be obtained from your druggist and contains more than sufficient to thoroughly overcome the worst case of indigestion or dyspepsla. There is nothing better for gas on the stomach or sour odors from the stomach or to cure a stomach headache, You couldn't keep a handier or more useful article in the house.—Advertise- ment. { f Suit and Overcoat Bargains Shown in Omaha? DON'T MISS SATURDAY’S OFFERINGS HERE $20 and $25 SUITS, and $20 and $25 OVERCOATS.. Broad assortment of Fall and Winter 1915-1016 styles, snappy designs that will please the young fel- 31 250 Brandegee, Kincaid Two Immense Lots for Selection $15 and $18 SUITS, Men’s and Youths’.... art, Schaffner & Marx $ And Other High Grade Guaranteed Lines lows, conservative models for men of more quiet tastes. Plain Blues, Plain Blacks, Plain Browns, Plain Grays And Wonderfully Broad Assortment of Fancies in All the EVERY GARMENT GUARANTEED BY OURSELVES AND MAKERS Don’t Wait Till Your Friend or Neighbor Has Selected the Suit or Overcoat You Paviicularly Want. COME EARLY. 3,000 PAIRS MEN’S TROUSERS 'llm great majority of th sizes, big assortment of ¢ $1.50 and £5.00; at, choice Season’'s Most Popular and Best Fabrics. make-—all $4.00, the celebrated Princess “vgular prhn em hoice patterns. AYDEN 16 1% DODGE 2% DOUGLAS STREET I BY, Full Quart o Cackley's Famous Grape ‘un ‘on ‘Brandies, e, Ask for Free China Osupons. Cackley Bros. e Bolicrt Ml Orders. Write for ¥ree Ostalogue. siae

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