Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 17, 1916, Page 8

352 mansn SEASAARIRER RIS b A G TARARGRRS P PS TIPS ARRs s § 5 2 e AR bpb ekt K< SikEERi R P T T T friiisid iesni iR “ - FAEREA ~ P s PP Tes SUrR S fA NSRS * Sy ARRAEN s . presents for their parents. 8—A JOY MORTON ADDS | $25,000 70 FUND Brownell Hall Boosters Receive Word of Splendid Gift as Memorial to His Wife. THOUSAND IS ANONYMOUS “One subscription of $25,000 from Joy Morton of Chicago.” The voice of Mrs. Philip Potter startled the 100 team members of squads hustling for subscriptions for the rebuilding of Brownell Hall, at the luncheon at the Hotel Fontenelle. The Joy Morton subscription thus becomes by far the largest subscrip- tion yet received for the enterprise. This, with the other subscriptions of the day, brings the total to date up to $132,145. o G. W. Wattles, who is in Chicago, saw Mr. Morton there and was au- thorized by him to send the telegram to the committee in Omaha announc- ing his subscription. Following is the telegram: Memorial to Wife. Chicago, 11.—To Mrs. S. R. Bark- alow, Hotel Fontenelle, Omaha: Mr. Joy Morton donates $25,000 for a dor- nitory as a memorial to his wife, sub~ ject to the securing of the proposed fund, to harmonize with the gt_‘neral architectural plan, and to be paid for by him as erected. (Signed) “G. W. WATTLES.” The telegram was sent to Mrs. Barkalow, who was a girlhood friend and college friend of Mrs. Morton when the two were attending Brown- ¢ll Hall years ago. This big subscription, coming through the team captained by Mrs, Philip Potter, casily made her team champion of the day, with a total subscription of $25130. The bou- quet went to her for the day. Rob- crt Burns carried the bouquet to Mrs. Potter, who immediately made a for- mal presqutation of it to Mrs. Har- rictt MacMurphy, a member of the team, who is one of the few remain- ing members of the first class of Brownell Hall, Other Large Subscriptions. Other of the larger individual sub- scriptions for the day were: 5. W. Harrls, president of Colorado and Utah Coal Company, Denver Anonymous . G. W. Hull. i s Sadness was cast over the entire working crew by the news of the mis- fortune that had befallen the family of Barton Millard, who is captain of one of the teams, C. C. George pre- sided and asked that out of considera- tion for the Millard family no ap- plause attend any of the announce- ments of subscriptions for the day. Robert Switzler made a short “pep” talk in which he declared this is a job for the young people to do in Omaha. He declared that Brownell Hall deserves especial support because it is not only an educational institu- tion, but an educational institution backed by Christian influence. The total subscriptions for the day was $29,550. Total for the Day. Following is the list of subscrip- tions brought in by the various teams for the day: WOMAN'S DIVISION. . Mrs. Louls 8. Clarke, captain.... Mrs. Frank W. Judson, captai Mre. Charles H, Marple, . Mrs. Phillp Potter, capli . Miss Mwrion R. Towle, ca) § 260 1,000 250 PR Total for Woman's Division MEN'S DIVISION. 6. Joseph Barker, captal 7. George Brandels, o 8. John J. Dodds, capti 9. Arthur H. Fetters, ca 10, Charles C. George, captal 11, Barton Millard, captain 12, Abraham L. Reed, captal 14, John W. Towle, captain.. 15, Marry A. Tukey, captain. 100 16, Charles M, Wilhelm, capt 180 17, Arthur L. Williame, captal @ Total for Men's Division. . 3,350 Kountze Family Reunion When the New Bank Opens Mail Carriers May Have to Toil Sunday To Handle the Rush The Christmas rush is on at the| postoffice. | Additional clerks have been placed | in the lobby of the building weighing and in other ways'aiding persons in | sending off their Christmas presents carly. Fifty-four additional clerks and | special delivery boys have already | been hired. Besides this, there will be the usual rumber of substitute car- riers and extra help on the wagons and automobiles. To insure the delivery of mail be-, fore or on Christmas, postoffice offi-| cials declare that the gifts should be mailed at least a week or ten days| ahead of time. According to Post- master Fanning, there is over six times more mail handled around Christmas than during ordinary pe- riods, and because of this it is prac- tically impossible to get all the gifts! out on time if persons send them in | the last two or three days. A good plan, according to the post- master, is to mail Christmas pack- ages now and write on the gift, “Not to be opened until Christmas.” In this way he believes that a great deal of the congestion might be avoided. Christmas comes the day after| Sunday, and the postmaster said that in all probability the carriers would have to put in the entire Sunday get- ting the presents out. Hessian Fly Must Be Exterminated from State| The 17 ssi n fly must be e.termi- nated from the winter wheat fields of Nebraska, as well as of the ficlds over’ the other states, so the Com- =ercial clrd’'s committee on grain in- terests has decided to give its co- operation to the national movement | for ftd;r:l legisl';ninu looking tcward | in active vaign aj st this pest. | ton THE 'EDUCATION BOARD Present Organization Will Lose Six Members — Important Program for Next Year. INCREASING TEACHERS' PAY Next MondayTvening the Board of | Education will meet for the last time in its present personnel. On Mon- day evening, January 8, the new board will meet to organize. Of the present board I. W. Carpen- ter, C. J. Ernst, Rbert Cowell and Thomas A. Fry will continue their unexpired terms of office. William E. Reed and Clarence V. Warfiield will enter the new board as re-clected | members. The six new members will be Francis A. Brogan, Samuel Burns, jr.; Charles O. Talmage, Frank E. Clark, Arthur R. Wells and Thomas Falconer. The matter of selecting a president is beginning to be considered. Robert Cowell and Thomas A. Fry have been mentioned. i Teachers’ Pay. | The complicated building program | and teachers’ increase of pay are two of the important matters which will be transmitted to the new board for disposition. The present board is! working away on the building situa- tion. Next Monday evening the buildings and grounds committee will recommend, a contract be awarded for construction of the new school on the Henry W. Yates site. Archi- | tects are revising plans for Park, Clif- Hill and Field Club schools, whose bids were considerably more than the estimates, Nothing definite' has been done on the request of grade school teachers and principals for 25 per cent in crease of pay. th Mrs. was OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: | Burglars Still Ply a Profitable Trade Here! SINGS SWAN SONG Charles Barada, 923 North | | Twenty-fifth street, has reported to: | the police that her home was entered | by burglars December 6 and $20|issued forbidding for two weeks the | worth of silverware ctolen. The burg-' manufacture of candies or cake, or lary occurred 'during the absence of | their transmission by | The decree further forbids ho- M. L. Hamann, 2815 Leavenworth, tels to serve meals containing more reported that the lock on his garage | than one meat course. . The decree will prevent the sending sories and tools taken and Frank |of an enormous number of Christmas | dainties intended for the soldiers at | the family. picked and Francis,‘ 324 North Fifteenth, reporte automobile acces- The Christmas Gift " for all the Family- A COLUMBIA GRAFONOLA OU can have a Columbia Grafonola outfit sent L to your home for Christmas for only a small initial payment. Balance -can be paid at your con- DECEMBER 17, 1916. iCa,ndy and Cake | roads. the front venience after the holidays. We have outfits at $18.90, $27.25, $52.60, $78.90, $106.50 and up, and on terms to suit the smallest purse. Make your selections now for Christmas delivery. START PAYMENTS NEXT YEAR Call and get our special Christmas record list. Schmol'er & Mueller Piano Co. 1311-1313 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. Headquarters for Aeolian Vocalions and Columbia Grafonolas and Their Entire Line of Foreign and Domestic Records. STORE OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL XMAS Built by John W. in the’ Model Efficiency LT Bate Plant O O AR SIXES For 7-passenger Six—48 h. p. 127-inch Wheelbase $1460 153w Both Prices f. 0. b. Racine Next-Year Mitchells Now in Two Sizes 8 Latest-Style Bodies Now 100% Over-Strength \ 31 Extra Feature: 24% Added Luxury The Latest Results of Bate Efficiency Methods This is our opening exhibit of the latest Mitchell models, open and enclosed. The models which will next month appear at the New York Show. You will see here a hundred new results of efficiency methods as applied by John W. Bate. The Innovations Next year's Mitchells, which have just arrived, embody the following in- novations: A new-size Mitchell—called Mitchell You have never seen a car at a modest price in which every detail is so finished and exquisite. Junior—is offered to men who want a S-passenger car. So you do! n't need to Savings made in our new body plant pay for all this added luxury. is another result of efficiency. 31 Wanted Extras So this pay for room or power not needed. Eight latest-style bodies are brought out, all built in the Mitchell plant. The saving made in the uew body plant all goes into added luxury. ‘Thus 24 per cent has been added to the cost of finish, upholstery and trimming. The Kountze family will hold a re- union in Omaha January 6, the occa- sion of the opening of the First Na- tional bank. The vank will be for- mally opened to public inspection on that date and for business on the fol- 1 wing Mopday. August and Herman Kountze, with their wives, will arrive from New York the day before the opening. Harold Kountze, their wusin, of the Denver branch of the family, will be here with his wife and Mr. and Mrs, Meredith Nicholson of Indianapolis are also coming. Mrs. Nicholson was Miss Genie Kountze and her husband is the famous novelist. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kountze will be the rendezvous for the members of the family. Santa Claus Will Visit Dundee Tots Seventy-eight kindergarten tots of Dundee school are looking forward with interest to next Thursday after- noon and Friday morning, when Marie B. Fowler and Hope St. Clair, director and assistant, will give them a Christmas treat. For one thing, Santa Claus will visit this school and will have a few words to say to the kiddies. Miss Fowler is arranging a program of Mother Goose pictures of living char- acters set in a frame, In connection with the art instruc- tion in the public schools thousands of boys and girls are making useful There are 31 extra features, instead of 26. These are attractions which other cars omit. | And now, for the first time, Mr. Bate announces double-strength in every Mitchell part. He has worked for three years to attain that. [ The Sr;lartest Car This added luxury makes the Mitchell the smartest car you'll see. Enormous ovens have been built so the finish coats can be fixed by heat. The result is a deep, lustrous finish which keeps its gloss for years. Fifty per cent has been added to the cost of the leather upholstery and of the cushion springs. This gives you an extra-grade leather, Phone Douglas 138. E. W. Johnson Head of The George A. Custer Post Emory W. Johnson was elected | commander of George A. Custer post, ' Forgy, surgeon; ~ the day, and Charles the three Grand Army of the Republic, at a meeting held last week at Memorial hall. eodore Smith is the new senior vice commander; J. H. Teb- bins, junior vice commander; Jona- than Edwards, quartermaster; J. B. F. E. Babbitt, chap- lain; Charles M. Harpster, officer of enn, officer of the guard, : A joint installation of officers for Iocal posts of the Grand Army of the Republic is planned for ‘somie time in January. In this latest Mitchell there are 31 features which nearly all cars omit. No other car includes more than four of them. These are things like a power tire pump, reversible headlights, an engine primer at driver’s hand, an extra-cost carburetor, a ball-bearing steering gear, a light in the tonneau, etc. Tt will cost $4,000,000 on next year’s output to sadd these extras to the —a roory,7-passenger Six, Mitchell GiiE 7 inch wheeibase. A high-speed, economical 48-horse- power motor. Disa ng extra seats and 31 extra features included. Price $1460, {. o. b. Racine : —a §.passenger Mitchell Junior g}, ° Prsenker lines, with 120-inch wheelbase. A 40- horsepower motor— 4-incb smaller bore than larger Mitchell. Price $1150, {. 0. b. Racine Also all styles of enclosed and convert- ible bodies. Alsc demountable tops. TWO SIZES 1 S —————————————— Mitchell. But this cost is paid by fac- tory savings, due to Bate efficiency methods. SafetyMargins Now 100% Three years ago Mr. Bate started out to double our margins of safety. They had been 50 per cent—a standard then called extreme. Now every part has twice the needed strength. There are over 440 parts made of toughened steel. All parts which geta major strain are built of Chrome-Vana- dium. The most important parts are also oyersize. The result is a lifetime car. Every common weakness has been overcome. Even the p\'oblem of breaking springs seems to be solved completely. Not one Bate cantilever spring has ever yet been broken. And we have used them for two years now. See the Extra Values John W. Bate, the great efficiency engineer, built and equipped this entire plant. It now covers 45 acres., Its out- put next year will be 25,000 cars. No other factory in the world could build a like car at anywhere near our cost. The results show clearly in a hundred ways—in over-strength, in added lux- uries, in extra features. They show in these new cars more than ever before. Come now and see them. MITCHELL MOTORS COMPANY, Inc. Racine, Wis,, U. S. A. J. T. STEWART MOTOR CO. Distributors Omaha, Nebraska 2046-52 Farnam Street Cut frflnfithe Menu| Rome, Dec. 16.—A decree has been post or rail- 0% oa. = | This Massive Upholstered [ Wit Canle, " Moce. _ Parlor Rocker | e Smoking | jut Ukt Mustration: frame of selid oak | Special— Stands e M C$11.25) O e i 80 : | Hundreds of - r‘%” | Desirable b | %2 Articles to % | jSelect From . | | : NS Library Tables Splendid Furniture for the Home That Will Make Ideal Xmas Gifts. Right now our store is overflowing with many beautiful and attractive pieces of Furniture, Rugs, Draperies, etc., that will make your home more cheerful on Christmas morn. We invite you to inspect our enormous stock of &2 dependable quality furniture upon which we guarantee you a saving of from 25% to 509,—made possible be- cause of our inexpensive location, our low operating ex- pense and immense buying power. We absolutely guar- antee to save you money on every purchase—and, as usual, YOU MAKE YOUR OWN TERMS. OPEN EVENINGS ALL THIS WEEK Make ideal Christmas gifts. One like illustration, Smoking Stands 98¢ Like cut. Our price 9x12 sizes. Qur price— design; our price ¥ : $12.75 Join Our New Christmas Grafonola Club A Columbia Grafonola makes an ideal gift for the entire family. We urge that you make your se- lection early this week, as the de- mand has been very heavy, and, while we can supply you now, we may not be able to later on. Thou- sards of records to select 65 from at prices up from. . (o like This genuine Columbia Grafonola and ten latest musical selec- $1 8.25 tions, complete, Visit Qur Big Toyland.. We Ab- solutely Guarantee You a Sav- ing of From 25% to 50% on Your Toys. JAPANESE TOYS Assorted. Amorted. 5¢ * 10¢ DOLL BEDS This Columbia Cab- inet Grafonola, only Complete with mat- tress and pillow TOY DOGS 10¢ ™ 39¢ TOOL CHESTS Our price— 39¢ FLEXIBLE FLYERS 39¢ Two sizes Our price ERECTOR SETS 19¢ WHIRL-A- Our price MOBILES 75 SEWING FOLDING 19 ¢ MACHINES LUNCH ¢ IRON With HORSESHOE TRAINS DRUMS SEW Assorted toys GAMES 23¢ 45¢ 19¢ 15¢ | T R o N TR R \4 | 9¢ isit Our Big Clothing Department You are cordially invited to inspect this big department. Clothing makes an ideal Christmas gift for father, futhepr‘, daugh- ter or son. Special reductions in many lines. Liberal terms. )