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| ¥ance, the conter I'HE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 6. T19160 Nebraska TWO PERISH WHILE WIVES LO0K 0 Member of Kearney Oity Coun cil and Bank Official Drown in Platte River Channel BODIES ARE RECOVERED | nends W by in help ess horror, two of Kearney's business | 1 the waters of | re tonmight atrman ce of that McDonald, aged | “entral Natwnal Kearney, were the victims Goes to Other's Rescue. The two u with their families f friends were picnick- river bank. Morrison nald were in the river bath ing. Morrison could not swim. Mor- fson beyond his depth in a ) which had been filled for the construction of the new steel bridge McDonald went to his rescue, Morrison never came up. McDon- ald rose to the surface once and then disappeared. None of the remaining members of the party could swim One of them pushed a pole into the ing on t and McD« water, but it was too late to save of the men channel is fifteen feet deep il feet long and 1s a very dangerous spot for ‘athers. The Platte river has been very low for a long time but a few davs ago 1t rose to almost the level of its banks ~with the breaking of the interstate dam in Wyoming. The water from ‘the dam was excessively cold for the season and this made it difficult for the drowning men in their fight for lite Other members of the party, be- sides the Morrisons and McDonalds, "were Mr. and Mrs. Ray Turner and Mrs. Leo Warsel Morrison leaves a wife and two small children, one a few months old. McDonald leaves a wife and three ung children. McDonald had ived in Kearney nearly all his life and was actively identific | with the business, official and social life of the place. Morrison had come here sfrom Missouri less than two years ago. The bodics were recovered late to night. Suburban Irrigation District Redeems Bonds n % North Platte, Neb., Aug, 5.—(Spe- fgial )~Aftey one of the most stormy ‘garcci of ‘any project in the history “of western Nebraska irrigation, the fsuburban irrigation district is at last out of the woods and has plain’ sail- ing ahead. “Attorney J. G. Beeler, secretary and treasurer of the djstrict, has announced that the last payment | has been made on a bond issue of 20,500 voted twenty years ago and| “ahat the district is at last free of debt " The saburban district, originally “the farmers and merchants district, “lfas had a long siege of legal battles “yhich have many of them ended in 2the supreme court. Older districts ~fought it from its inception and it was only by winning in the courts| xthat its existence was continued. o « The district has a ditch twenty-four }Tnlc.\ long and a ten-mile lateral. In JAhe twenty years that it has been in .®xistence the taxes on the 8500 acres oWhich it waters have averaged but .85 cents per acre, at times going as fugh as $1 per acre annually and at vther times dropping as low as 1§ ngents per acre. -Four Stacks of Grain : Burned by Incendiary "y Beaver City, Neb., Aug. 5.—(Spe- @ial)—Four stacks of grain on the Merm of William Heidoft, eight miles “wortheast of here, were burned at a Hate hour last night, The stacks in| “awo fields and in three separate| "places. The person who set the fires | was traced today by Sheriff Sevier. A | “plain trail had been made through the stubble field from stack to stack and .across a cornfield and into the road- «Way, where the tracks were lost in the | ~dust. They were made by a pair of sharrow-pointed shoes, the only clue “that has been found. The loss of Swheat amounts to about 1,000 bushels. thirty L */Farm House at Maywood Burned.. +* Maywood, Neb., Aug. 5.—(Special.) "—Al Zollars, a prominent farmer liv- <ing north of town, lost his house and pearly all his Mousehold goods and “elothing by fire Wednesday. The fire, © which was supposed to have started £wrom a defective chimney, broke out wwhen all the family was out for a few w minutes, it had made such headw +that almost nothing was saved. The whouse was partly covered by insur- were a total loss. ' Persistent Advertising 1s the Road ‘%0 Success. | ment the * & LAIER. Mr. F. E. Blind, formerly of o“Fuchs, Son & Blind of this city, has een placed in charge of the new ecorating department of the en- rged Beaton & Laier store. Mr. )l:filind has just returned from an east- ““ern trip, where he gained many new ideas in the decorating line.—Adv. Thirty Five Entries Made for Infant Contest at State Fair at Lincoln 21 CLOSING DATE 1S AUG iple out active n t and are making entries closing of e s Aug g 18 the oentries o Follow TN Melvt r. Albln \ Atwater, Albio eon Nachmann Spragu laon, Colloge View y N lnon ar Luwren: Ruth A Murkare Amelia Th Wa Jan ping Water n Rerwyn Springs low 4 Lowell Hwerdfogor Lincoln nd, Palmra Clarence Ray Veter Younkors Wurne, Geneva Murie Louise Diavis, Pal Marjorta Etlaen Capwell Irving Lyon W Francis O'Con Allan Janet Carlisle, Emma Jane Spadt Henry Crist Burha Carl Harold Burhoo| Murgaret MeCloan, Notes From Beatrice And Gage County Beatrice, Neb., 1g. 5.—(Special.) —Word has b received here to the effect that W. M. Hall, a former resi dent of Gage county, who was sent up for a life term in the Minnesota state prison on December 17, 1910, for the murder of his nieces husband, walked out of the penitentiary last Tuesday a free man, having heen pardoned. Hall is now 78 years of age, and has been in feehle health for some time. He was engaged in farm ing four miles cast of Diller for many years, and after the death of his wite he went to Minnesota where the shooting occurred Mrs. Mary C. Currier died last eve- ning at a local hospital aged 64 years She is survived by her husband and four sons. The Gage County Live Breeders’ association was here yesterday by the election of these officers: President, Kirk Griggs; vice president, George Suiter; treasurer, R, \V, H. Liebers. Nearly 100 farmers at tended the meeting Mrs. Adelia King, wife of James King, for the last thirteen years a resident of Beatrice, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William Gra ham in this city yesterday, aged 81 years. She is survived by her hus band, who is 90, and four children I'he body will be taken to Lena, 111, Monday for interment. Stock orgamzed Speak at Shubert Picnic Falls City, Neb., Aug. 4 —(Special.) —Shubert is laving a combined chautauqua and picnic the last two days which drew especially large crowds. The principal speakers were John L. Kennedy, republican candi- date for United States senator, and Abraham L. Sutton, republican can- didate for governor, Girl Has Jaw Broken. Falls City, Neb., Aug. 5.—(Special.) —Miss Bess Harris had her jaw broken by the handle of a windlass with which she was draining water from a well. As the bucket reached the top, the handle slipped from her grasp and as she undertook to catch 1t, it struck her on the chin, breaking the jaw bone and knocking two teeth loose. Several titches were required to close the wound. Killed Under Engine. Fremont, Neb.,, Aug 5. —(Special.) —Whiled riving an engine to a threshing outfit across a small bridge near Clarkson, Joseph N. Navorkal lost his life when the structure gave way. He was pinned heneath the en- gine and was mstantly killed. Canned Beans Kills, Fremont, Neb., Aug. 5.—(Special.) —Poison from ecating canned baked beans resulted in the death at a local hospital of Mrs. Phillip Klein, 30 years old. The husband and two children were taken ill, but recovered, Stomach Troubles Diarrhoea | Cholera Dysentery | Sunstroke Cramps Malaria and all other summer complaints can be prevented and relieved by Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey the one remedy that has been used with con; tinued the standard of purity and excel lence since 1860. When traveling use a little Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey in your drinking water. It often saves much distress oc- easioned by the change. Sold in SEALED BOTTLES ONLY by most druggists, grocers and dealers, $1.00. If they can't supply you, write us. Useful household booklet free. The Duffy Malt Whiskey Co., Roches! N.OY. Any Watch Repaired $ or Cleaned for. . .. S H CLAY 308 Neville .~Third Floor. 16th and Harney. 1 ant; secretary, () | e | [ rou | hinldings in the path of | the hail doing considerable damage | | help th by Hail Does Wind Early Accompanied in Morning Heavy Damage SOME CROPS ARE DAMAGED | Chamberlam garage, a co was level- | about $4,000 | new ey ok butle led to ent the ground a | worth of danage de and stock. Mr. ( who slept in the ot herlain, sr, e of the huild mg, was taken out of the rums cutf and bruised, but not seriously in- juted by the falling it blocks Main street was httered with flying tunhers and broker plass. The| roof of the garage hurled over| the Stockmen's hotel, and destroymg the tinally descended on the Hippach Yo barn. It} house, which it demohshed. I'rees, crops and farm houses and | the rm seemed to have suffered more or less, sto Damage was done by the wind m the Jones lumber yard. About $2,000 worth of lumber was scattered over the yard and much of it sphntered A picce of 2x8 way hurled half a block from the garage and buried nearly three feet mto the muddle of street. The telephone system Mamn is out of commission Board of Equalization | Continues Session (From a St Correspondent ) Lincoln, Aug. 5.-(Special)- The State Board of Assessment continned its session as a board of equalization this morning, the tirst objection to raises made by the board coming from officials of Custer county, jected to the 15 per cent raise m real estate tacked on by the board. They appeared to think that the raise was unwarranted hecause of the quantity of very poor land in that county Officials of Jefferson county appearcd before the board deavored to show it that the : cent raise made on real estate too high who oh en per was e | 36,748 more pald Want Ads first aix months 1916 than in same period of 1916 noarly 1.000 more eavh < Why men tlon results with this Kind of evidence? New System of Fat Reduction | Here's a new way for all fat people | to laugh lmglglher at that old bugaboo Obeslty. he saying that “there is nothing new under the sun” does not | now apply to fat people any more Here is something new for them—a new aensation, a new pleasure, a new and graceful fizure, easily found by anvone who is passing bevond the limits of slimness, Evervone has heard of the Marmola Prescription; that harmless combination of fat- defylng elements disoovered by one of our foremost physiclans. Now, from the same high authority, there comes another {dea—the idea of condensing these same pure, harmless ingredients into a pleasant little tablet. Taken after eating and at bed-time, they stomach to dispose of all tho fatty foods, converting them into com- vact, solid flesh, muscle and_ energy, without dieting or exercise. Marmola Prescription Tablets rexulate the en- tire system—do for you what bodily exertion and self-denfal can not do, and the_fat, once routed, is gone for good. You can prove all this at a trifling cost, Marmola Prescription Tablets are sold by all druggists or eent post pald by the Marmola Co., 864 Woodward Ave., Detroit. Mich. A | large case—sufficient to bring lasting | results—is but 7be¢. TheOnly mg;}.v:nsmmw e onaries g WEBSTER'S NEW INTERNATIONAL yOR Superiority of Educational Merit. This mew creation answers with final authority all kinds of puzzling questions such as ‘‘How i3 Preemysi § 1?'" “Where is Flan- \ age?”’ ““What isa howi is whita coal?”” “‘How is skat pro- nounced?” and thousands of others. More than 400,000 Vocabulary Terms. 30,000 Geographical Subjects. 12,000 Biographical Entries. Over 6000 lilus- trations, 2700 Pages. The only diction- ary with the divided page—a stroke of et Paper Editions, Write for epec men pages, il- lustrations, ete. Free, a set of Pocket Mapa if 3 this CAMPAIGN Jas B Haynes | m%”fl?fl?,l EEERERRY=NS Omaho Home-Furnishing Headquarters [ BiEie= DOZENS OF BABIES BIG STORM WRECKS STREET RALLWAY ‘ v STRIKE SPREADS MREADY ON LIST~ RUSHVILLESTORBS S"L£E Dt | braska Fair association management of much ba I'he buildings which were biult last year were thought to be large enough (Continued From Page One.) Waite, United Kennedy Con nued From Page One.) everything points to a and better exhibit Will ! : States cnator, lohn | Al Three Were Absent, Automobiles and Omnibuses Doctor Says Nuxated Iron nervous and 1 generally k ¢ |ond Avenue line, who had presented district. (¢ Toites willl then® craas, | Becenin SEenetals L MRy develap | e :', no demandd to the company, struck so that cvery candidate will have the |/ sorts of conditfons. One 18 too thin; anothe in sympathy I'wo hundred employves opportunity of e the voters.” s mlml«l. d with unhealthy fat; some are | weuk th | el of the surface lines in Queenshorough Tudge Sutton leit Omaha yesterday |1o e voted to quit early today. The Brook- afternoon tor Newman Grove, where ) arsialte J * no olved i ir v ch ag tired all day: some fussy and irritable i dinestarc nauuiivalyed: hie will address he chautauqua gath ' skinny and bloodless, but ull lack Some minor disorders attended the ering at 2 o'clock this aiternoon. Al sical power and endurance. In such lishnesa to take drugs, | declaration of the strike in Manhat it Is worse than fc churches of the town have postponed narcotte ‘M U ‘S Maywood District Fair for all needs, but they e and n departments M NISH Q ” AS Erects New Buildings| inarels madequate for A A Ihe barns and grandst | Maywood, Neb., Aug. 5—(Spe-| i ubled s otl ! COMMITTEE HEAD cial.)—Considerable activity is being \‘m”ly be (i:‘. ; e | Eve) manifested by the Southwest Ne-|The fair | confidence were for their needs and are be departments arged if possible to do se t vear was a decided suc d weather and mmuch larger ndidates unable to attend the cparation Candrdat )‘a t atten th v1 : LR o ncrease Strength of Delicate 1 . P, in Ten D o iont e Seish eople 2009, in Ten Days ‘ Rt ”’"”'l”f 7' tn many instances—Persons have suffered | « rainary nuxated of the ca i ; i LI "! '8 untold agony for yenrs doctoring for merv- | i T L [ the mght near A TeW days L weakness, stomach, liver or kidney dis- | | lmes i order to reach their w hromghont CAsten oy or some other allment when their real 1. timne \ re he made a close study yrounte was Iack of iron in the blood.— | ble who v eR s traettr at e lin aae sl et pohiical harometer How to tell JHELoren alude the New York Railway g . New York, N. Y.——In a recent discours d 1alud 0§ " " wa To Tour in Autos. Dr 1 Sauer, & well-known Spect. \ teen days’ time sir v the building | pany, the Second Avenue fne, Ti . has studled widely both fn this countr broper form and this | Avenue R ay company, and t It has heen agreed that the hetter Europe satd: If you wera to m hichaesiDgsnFADGIoT lines Bronx way of re nng the people in Ne tunl 'vlwl1 (»lr";lau"i';v .-Jx‘r:rnly;l-"u'! without ‘.y“.n'nnui nu'v xv’«rl.. obi be Ereatly sl i as you please about all the I'he strike to force a demand for braska is by automobile and about cedingly larga nuniber who B el ROt alGL o i ontand i cres il Loenten 1. John L. Kennedy, with xholate IIfCor nojother; sarson (i hard fact o | | s 5 of tron 1L oSSBTy on to b wages | n to take effect « the onc-halt of the state candidates, and A e R e e T Pt ln n lntl‘l u.:m mam hines of the New York F mysclt at the head of the ot party, toms disappear. Without fron the hlood at | G iE R alnod R EEaAL F : . Tl o once loses the power to change food finto S A tha company as early as 10 o'cle will tormally 04 campaign that| g 1 (e B arerore, motsiing you | R night, when the first meeting of the will reach every nook and cranny of t the | SR R Y conductors and motormen voted to the state. Mr. Kennedy's party will el gnasde of iron, Iron acetate, etc., quit work. One thousand men took be covering one part of the state while ST e's l'---"hv” l‘w;eln;h;‘: a similar vote a meeting early the candidates i our automaobile par- this con FEien ALk oretharm this morning. Employes of the Sec- ty will he holding mectings in anothe . people | th the discovery of tha on all this hus on, for example, injure the beneficinl Nuxated in fte the announco- 100 00 to any annot tuka who lacks th 200 per rs of , , A . medicines me, provided tan and a few arrests were Made of their meetings for this discussion of which only whip up your fagging vital - r!::“u”xsrmlr\']“: strikers who attempted to interfere the moral questions o the campaign. | powers for the moment, maybe at the v:\ Yilitvey s RE R Ry aasalin et ? > ' s later on. No mat they w cfund yo YA Rny with the operation of cars. So far Judge Sutton speaks at an ope ’H.‘q”‘nu"” MR which Nuxated Tron dows not at least dou as known no one was injured during meetimg at AlLion ble your strength n ten davs time. 1t 1s onday nigl owe it 1o yourself to mak 10, s the night on August 10 makes an address at the Sen how long you can | dispensed in this oy by ShEr The officials of the New York Rail- Frontier days celebration at Silver IS SO L B ways company asserted that only a (re d pioneers small percentage of their c1 es i He at Centra had voted to quit work and s City 1gu 2 a ; \ August 121 WARE the protection of the police the makes an address at the Old Settler EXCHANGE YOUR LIGHTING GLASS others. The officials said that Y0 per cent of the men were willing to work aud that with police protection the surface car lines could be aperated The police commissioner offered to put a policeman on every car at Union and August 1 talks at Nebraska City on OF INTEREST TO HOME OWNERS FOR ONE WEEK ONLY l We will take your old glass shades in trade, giving Large German Sausage Factory Destroyed by Fire nidence of The Awsociated Pross H. H. NOI‘CFOSS. B.eatrice o4 “"'l"."’fl“”' 7»]”“ ‘“H '\‘f.“”[””’ shades tinted to match your own decorations at a small Banker, Dies Suddenly "5, P S et in 1 aidftionalichareeiforIG, Beatrice, Nebs, Aug. S.—(Special lierstads, one'of the Iargest concerns SEE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY OF TINTINGS Pelegram)—I1. HL. Norcross, for of the kind in Germany and recently This is an exceptional offer and one you should not overlook, as many years mterested in banks at rage 1 ca g o arn on S E 7 v o = jons Adams, Beatrice ,.lml( I"le\‘, .1\‘\‘:,“‘ 4:1 ‘“‘::\\‘i_‘ “lu‘: |,:”\:,’\\(|”,t,“ ,‘,”1‘”'(. “: l(u‘“l( it allows you ;l“ get shades that will harmonize with your decorations a line of grain elevators his se & ; at a very small expense. SR S tion of m.‘» \[.\‘(rf,‘ 1.;7‘? lllunx‘ll‘v‘nrl\‘({\ Same Vield of Oits It will add to the beauty of the home, besides increasing its wdentined with the business interest el il SR sale value. of Gage county, died suddenly las el S Better Call Monday night at his home here of apoplexy STy finishear I ¥ Bl et R it e | ANGELO ELECTRIC COMPANY 4 resident of the county for forty [ ceived a yield of sixty-one bushels to oug. vears. A widow and three children |the acre. This is the heaviest yield 1907 Farnam St. survive yet reported in this county i you A;éusl Sé;)re Hours 8:30 AiM to:5 P'M, aturd;!y38307 M t:)wG B Here’s News of Vital Interest To All Thrifty Home Lovers 4 IR 2= fif = i ’ i I h\!l,ll‘_ K ereaiiy h vo] l\ LI iinhy | | TheBeaton& Laiéfi?.;]_)ansion Sale BEGINS MONDAY, AUGUST 7TH, AT 8:30 A. M. Everything In This Mammoth Store Whittall Rugs and Way Sagless Bedsprings only excepted Reduced From 10 to 20% With the advent some three weeks since of Mr. Geo. W. Laier as President and general manager of this fast growing store, come many marked steps in ad- vance—and to begin with a sale affording The Opportunity of a Life Time To Choose From Unrivaled Displays of Up-to-the-Minute Furniture, Carpets, Draperies and Stoves The Choicest Products of America’s Leading Manufacturers AT PRICES THAT MEAN Savings of 10 & 20% to V3 & 1> We might fill every page of every Sunday paper in Omaha with descriptive matter regard- ing the thousands of unusual values in fine Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Draperies, Stoves, Ranges, Refrigerators, etc., etc., and then not even begin to do justice to the merits of this sale. Suffice it to say, if you have a single home furnishing need, present or future, you'll profit greatly sup- plying it now at Beaton ‘& Laier’s. This sale is the more noteworthy, owing to the fact that it occurs in the face of steadily ad- vancing prices. [n many instances the values offered cannot be duplicated at anything like the low prices in force during this great sale. BEATON & | AIER €15-17 So.76%S1. e | T T | i

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