Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 22, 1916, Page 5

KING AK'S BOARD ~ VIEWS THE YARDS { Also Enjoy Annual Dinner as Guests of Their Former King, Everett | Buckingham. | CHARLEY LANE WAS THERE, T00 Proud as a boy with red-topped boots was Everett Buckingham Mon- day night. He was the host to the board of governors of Ak-Sar-Ben for the annual harvest home dinner, which he gave them in the Exchange building at the stock yards. It was not the fact that he was host at the dinner that made him proud. He was proud to be able to show the governors such splendidly equipped stock yards as now exist on the South Side. He showed them nll over the yards, particularly the new fireproof and weather-proof, con- creted hog barns and the new horse barn He took them all over these latest im- provements before the dinner. Doe Frye at the Hel Then they repaired to the bullding dining brated Doc Frye had prepared a d!nner' in numberless courses, with all the choie- est varleties of “eats and drink Governors present were Buckingham, Judson, Hosford, Beaton, Black, Saun- ders, Brandeis and Richards, and Secre- | tary J. D. Weaver. Guests were Charles | lLane, Joe Barker, Jay Foster and Jack Walters, There was no business. harvest home dinner ie no time for busi- | ness. It is an occasion for a good time. The governors and guests talked infor-| mally, told stories and smoked until late in the night. First Practicing Woman Physician ‘ in Nebraska Dies | | Dr. Mary Strons, sala to have been | the first woman physiclan in Nebraska | and professor of operative and clinical surgery at the Creighton College of Medicine, died yesterday morning at 7. | Dr. Strong was born in New Hamp- | shire December 18, 18. During her | early life she was a school teacher in New England and she came west to follow this profession. | In 1888, however, she took up the| study of medicine and obtained a doc- tor's degree. She was a practicing vhy- sician in Omaha ever since her gradua- tion and for seventeen years was attend- ing physiclan for the Salvation Army rescue home. She was a member of the Nebraska Medical society and an honorary mem- ber of the Douglas County Medical asso- | clation. She also belonged to Mecca | court, Tribe of Ben Hur, and the East- | ern Star, In 1802 she was worthy ma-| tron of Vesta chapter, Order of Eastern | Star. She was deaconess in the Ply- mouth Congregational church. | She is survived by one brother, who | lives in Manchester, N. H., and one sis- | ter, who lives in Milwaukee, i Dr. Strong resided at Twenty-fourth and Binney streets, room, where the vele-| This annual Comes to Omaha to | Live After Eleven | Years in Canal Zone D. R. Wolverton has arrived in Omaha | from the Panama Canal zone'and will go| into business with his brother, E. Wol-| verton, with officers at 3§ Omaha Na-| tional Bank building. | Mr. Wolverton has been statistician for the Isthmian Canal commission and for the Panama canal for eleven vears, | He met and helped to show the sights of the canal to such men as Taft, Roose- | velt, Bryan, Knox and Root, and there is no man better posted on the canal in all its departments than he is. i “The slides in the canal must be over- come by patiently dredging out the dirt chenever they occur,” he said, ‘“The present serfous obstruction will be cleared away by next month. It is merely 8| question of finally getting the sides of! the cuts down to an angle where the| earth will not slide any more.” ! Work on New Bridge Across Missouri is General Manager Ware officially an- nounces that the Union Pacific, as soon as possible, will begin the reconstruction | df the company raflroad bridge over the | Missouri wiver, with a view to having it ‘ completed during the early part of 1917, | and, if posaible, before the ice breaks an1 | runs out that year According to Mr. Ware, the contract for reconstructiod of the bridse has bee awarded te the Ameriean pany. It is to be a doub! ture and in the of steel will be used, where struction of the present bridge, there Jut 2,80 tons. The reconstruction is be carried on without train service present bridse twenty-four hours. Dog Tags Sell Fast on the Qpening Day| hundred fitty dog owners | have recelved 1916 licenses from the city | clerk. The sale will continue for several weeks, to give everybody an opportunity before the dog catcher starts making his rounds. The city « pur- | chase of a new e for the man | who pursues unlicensed canines. STIMSON, PLAYGROUND EXPERT, IS IN OMAHA | C. P. Stimson, field secretary of the Playground and Recreation Association of | America, addressed the playground instis tute at Central High school Monday e ing. Mr. Stimson urged co-operation by citizens in the playground system being eveloped here. He told of some of the practical sides of helping the people to! se their lelsure hours f n rldge -track strue- | tion 5,200 tons | in the com reconstr con- | is to | interference of It is stated that over th: 320 trains pass ever One and fzed the wisely An One teaspoc fective Cou onful of Dy L as nee ough a Ists Treatment. King's New Dis- ded will soothe and d bronchial irrita- ~Advertisement covery tak check your tion. Al dru | hands. | Sunderland, Spring year Spring, the well-known, brated and much-loved gentle slipped one over on us justly-cele spring, |Spring, Gentle Spring, Comes to Omaha One Day Ahead of Time this | molasses at the grocery stores arrived a day before she is usually due. | She came tripping gently into the ctly at 4:3 Monday morning. Anybody coult tell that Monday was a spring day, sun- shiny and nice and warm and galmy. The reason” why spring got here a day | early s that this is leap year anl therc- fore we've had a day extra Spring is here, anyway. Look at the store windows. Look at the sky pleces of the “dear creatures” as J. C. W calls ‘em. Look at the wirls skipping rope. Look at the boys playing marbles. Took at the Look at the bonfires of dry grass and rubbish, See the robins hopping ubovt and hauling the early worms cut of the ground. See the politiclans shaking Note the demand for sulphur and sassafras at the drug stores «ai for Harries Prodioted Electrification of Roads Years Ago Recently when the Milwaukee road opened a section of its electrified north coast line, a circular and some data con- cerning the opening was lsent to General Harries, president of the Umaha Electric Light and Power company. The general has written to General Agent Duval of | the Mitwaukee acknowledging the receipt of the data, adding that twenty years ago when he asserted that he would live to see the time when etectric current folks raking their yards. | would supersede steam as a motive power | people laughed at him. Light Engineers Ratified by City The city council ratifiec the action of its committee of the whole by indefinitely postponing the electric street light situ- ation Insofar as the proposed new con- tract is concerned B. J. Arnold of Chicago, and E. N Strait of Beloit, Wis., were approved as special engineers in connection with an examination of the light plant beins made by the electric light and power committee of the Commercial club. This action was taken on request of J. A chairman of the committee. Approval of these engineers by the coun- il does not bind the city officials to the findings of the Commercial club's inde- pendent audit and affairs of the lght company NEW EXPERIENCE HAS HER TALKING Like a Happy Dream Come True— Relief from Her Long Iliness Charms. “BUGBEAR" WAS SAVED FROM To suffer almost from childhood with stomacn trouble and then to find relief almost over night, is like having a happy dream come true. But this is the delightfui experience of Mrs. Ivah Spann, of 1913 P street, Lin- coln. She has been saved from an attack of nervous prostration, that is woman's bugbear, she tells. “Tanlac has relleved me of nervous examination of the | nervousness and | that dread malady | dyspepsia,” declared Mrs. Spann yester- | day. This statement is the highest en- dorsement that can be given to a medi- | cine. Dyspepsia usually is a baffling all- ment. The dyspeptic is a sufferer indeed. Loss of strength, extreme nervousness and often fear of trivialities seize the dyspeptic. “I had nervous threatened with said Mrs. Spann dyspepsia and was nervous “Ever since girlhood 1 quickly | prostration,” | have been so nervous that I could not | sleep well Indigestion, which finally be- | came dyspepsia, caused gas almost con- | stantly. For days at a time I would suf- fer from pains In my stomach, head and back. “Of course 1 had sought relief con- tinuously and I did not have great faith in Tanlac when I started to take it. But 1 have now. My first bottle. Now, after taking the treat- 1 want to recommend Tanlac for it has done for me." Tanlac is a boon to weak, {ll, nervous, | dopressed women,” explained the Tanlac Man who is introducing the Master Medi- ne at the Sherman & McConnell Drug ‘0. 16th and Dodge streets. explains to scores dally how Tanjac shoald be taken and the results that 1aay be expected from its use. anlac may be obtained in Benson at the Schiller-Beattie Drug Store; field, H. F baum; Meyer Drug Co.; Nebraska City, Henry Schwake & Auburn, E. H. Dort; Ashland, . H. Cone; Malmo, P. B. Fitch Fremont, Brown-Frederickson Drux Store; Oakland, W. O. Harding & Son; Clarkson, E. H. Koza Co. ATTENTION-DRUGGISTS An exclusive Tanlac agent Is wanted in every town, village and eross road in this county. For particulars ad dress Cooper Medicine Company, Day ton, Ohlo Cocoanut Oil Makes A Splendid Shampoo It you want te keep your hair in good condition, be carcful what you wash it with Most contain too much alkali soaps and prepared shampoos This dries the scalp, makes the hair brittle, and is very harmful. Just plain, less), is much better than the most ex- pensive soap or anything else you can for shampooing, as this can't pos- injure the hair Simply moisten your and rub it in. One will make an abundance of rich, creamy lather, and cleanses the hair and scalp thoroughly. The lather rinses out easily and removes every particle of dust, dirt dandruff and excessive oll. The hair dries quickly and evenly, and it leaves it fine and silky, bright, fluffy and easy, to manage You can get mulsified most any drug store sibly hair with water two teaspoonfula It is very cheap, and a few ounces is enough to last every- one in the family for months.—Adver- tisement relief began withi the | There he | mulsified cocoanut | oil (which is pure and entirely grease- Spring- | Weeping Water, | cocoanut ofl at | THE BEE: OMAHA, W¥ OPEN NEW LOT OF INESDAY, | Observe | the cars that are appearing from winter storage. Observe the park venches bo- Ing painted and put in place. Spring is here, though quietly and unobstrusively Of course, Father Rigge Colonel Welsh knew the of her arrival Omaha with Motor Apparatus as Aguninst Eight Before. she entered precise moment The city council opened a second n:\:-l\-v ;‘l’;:r: m':':’r:".‘::;'dm_ N tas lot of bids for motor fire apparatus. to the top of the staft on his jawn.| DCTe Were ten bidders, as against Judge Cooley's fancy did not lightly turn | ®/Eht at the recent bidding to thoughts of his Palm Beach smt. | The bids will be tabulated at once And the city fathers overlooked a fine jand then will begin the difficult "vl‘"";"l"“.‘ to 1“'::“'" - the “T';“":'- work of analyzing the propositions raceful, ornamental, artistic, an ovely Felcome arch” the incandesdent legond: |A CUTSOTY examination of the bids does not disclose a marked differ- “Soring, “"Welcome." ence In the situation. The entrance her. Matt | FIRE TRUCK BIDS Ten Firms Enter Bids to Provide| and yossivly | SPECIAL SESSION OF COUNCIL MARCH ln’ another well known automobile | concern into the competition is said by the commiseloners to have lent a little zest to the bidding, this firm apparently having attractive proposition, The blds vary according to the type | of tires, the attachmant of junior pumvs and other features. The commissioners would ot offer any apecific omment on the bide at this time, They will have a speclal session for careful considera tion of the bids during this week The superintendent and chief of the fire department still hold to the posi tion that the motor equipment of the | | tire department should be standardized rather than mccepting several bide | The eoity will purchase eleven motor {fire trucks. There is avallable for this | purpose approximately $35,000 an | It takes but a minute of time to save dollars when you read The Bee Want Ad \ columns. | ture reinforcements for the besieged gar- i to pay $10 and costs Indemnity. HOW TO REMOVE DANDRUFF This Hair Tonic Which You Can Make at Home Removes It in & Few Applications. Woman Fined for Hurling Bricks in Mix 0vgr Tom Cat 1407 North Elghteenth street, moved some time ago from the residence of Mrs. Edith Oase, 87 North Kightenth street, but was unable to take| Dendrutt and Sealp eruptions éun 59 | removed In a few nights by the follow- :|'r"“ "‘.:‘_ T "‘h";"“‘:“‘ ‘"‘";“ ”"h“":‘”fun- simple recipe which you can mix at e was holding pending the 6On- |y .p, or have put.up by any drugeist at summation of a little finanelal misunder- | (08 (0, (M P, CLECC Tootor the standing. Monday Mrs. Smith took a |yiil T TSl Catmiens: taxicab to her former residence and in- sistod that pusey be set free, or she would | [Vater. 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